By James Thompson

Donald Trump has distinguished himself once again as a consummate racist by attacking an Arizona judge for his Latino heritage. Trump asserts that the Arizona judge from Indiana is prejudiced against him because of his Latino heritage. Immune to shame, Trump further asserts that judges of Muslim heritage would be prejudiced against him as well.

Let’s accept Mr. Trump’s logic for a moment. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If a Latino judge or Muslim judge will be prejudiced against an Anglo defendant, then it follows that the reverse is true. This means that an Anglo judge will be prejudiced against Latinos, Muslims, African-Americans and so forth. Also, a judge whose heritage is with the 1% would be expected to be prejudiced against the 99%.

Perhaps Mr. Trump will make it part of his campaign platform to eliminate prejudice in the criminal justice system. Mr. Trump should fight to see that all African-Americans tried by judges prejudiced against them because of their race will be retried and released if found innocent in the retrial. Similarly all Muslims, Latinos, as well as the 99% tried by prejudiced judges should be retried and released if found innocent in a trial by their peers including the judge.

The scary part of all this is that we can easily see how Mr. Trump would run the oval office. He would use the oval office, as he is using his presidential campaign, as a bully pulpit against anyone who disagrees with him or tries to hold him or his class allies accountable.

It’s all about the class war, stupid.