The thing is - he's not a Republican. He's a life-long, hard-core liberal Democrat. Which explains all of the racism!
Trump in 2008: Hillary Clinton would make a "great" president - CBS News
Let's just call him what he is ----- a whore. He'll buy and sell this party, that party, some other party, or no party at all, whatever it takes to enrich Numero Uno.
And no, none of that "explains the racism".
Liberal is the anthithesis of racism. He ain't "liberal" or "conservative", he's a very simple greed sponge. And just as he'll say one thing today and the opposite of it tomorrow he has no party affiliation and no philosophy whatsoever of how a government or a society should work, because that would involve some thought about what benefits
other people ---- and he's not even
capable of that level of rumination.
The racism, well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, or in this case the orange. I'm sure he's taught that by his same source for gaming the government system, his father, who was infamous for discrimination in his residences in New Yawk. I wouldn't call it necessarily "racism" so much as "elitism". He
literally thinks he's above everybody else, and works relentlessly every day to drive that point home to anyone who will still listen. Somewhere deep down though he knows that's a load of bullshit, which is why he relentlessly runs around putting down everybody he sees as "rapists", "disgusting pigs", "losers" and the like. He's an insecure paranoid little ****.
Perhaps his most revealing line is "they're laughing at us" referring to Japan (or whoever). That's where his values lie --- being laughed at because he knows how full of absolute shit he is. It's what makes him melt into a puddle.
And you see, I don't think he's a racist. I think that what you are describing
does explain the "racism". It isn't racism that drives Donald Trump. It isn't sexism (although I do believe, based on his past behaviour toward women, which is a matter of record, that he is more of a sexist than a racist). It is political opportunism.
Does Trump hate Muslims? Nope. Nothing in his past would seem to indicate that. Does he recognise that there is a rather wide streak of nationalism which fears Islam, and radicalism? You bet your ass he does, and he will exploit that to his benefit. Does Trump hate Latinos, or even hold latinos in disregard? I don't think so. But he
does recognise that there is a large demographic of Americans who hold immigrants, and Latinos in particular, responsible for every perceived ill in this country from crime, to welfare, to job loss. Trump sees this, and banks on it.
Now, I remember watching the video of a Senate hearing where Trump was being...less than polite...about Native Americans. However, again, Trump wasn't disparaging Native Americans because he disliked them; he was disparaging them, because they were receiving, in his perception, an unfair government assistance to their casino business that he was not. If the government offered Trump the same tax breaks, etc., that they were offering the Native Americans, I promise he would never have said a word.
The point is, it is not
Trump's racism that drivers him; it it Trump's recognition of the racism inherent in large groups of demographics in America, and his mercenary willingness to use that racism to get what he wants. Now, I could draw an historical parallel, but I rather think some folks might be angry, and I would be accused of invoking Godwin's Law. So, I will leave it here.