Trump is the new Faust, appealing to US racists, haters: Analyst

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “the new Faust” who is appealing to America’s racists, hypocrites and haters, an international lawyer and political analyst says.

Barry Grossman made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on Trump’s suggestion that the United States should establish a database to track Muslims across the country.

On Thursday, Trump said he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in America for security reasons, two days after he said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down some mosques.

Hours later, the Republican frontrunner doubled down on his previous remarks when asked by NBC News if he would create a national database to register all Muslims living in the US to protect the country against terrorism. “I would certainly implement that, absolutely.”

“The only thing interesting about Trump publicly confessing proclivities which expose his ignorance, bigotry, and willingness to say anything which might win him some votes, is that instead of being ridiculed and dismissed by the American public as a lunatic, he continues to build a substantial constituency among normally silent Americans,” Grossman said.  

“Trump is the new Faust, a Mephistopheles-like character who is willing to contract even with Satan if it helps him realize his ambitions and spread his unique brand of hate,” he added. 

Trump appealing to America’s bigoted underbelly

Grossman said that Trump’s “increasingly outrageous policy statements, though roundly dismissed as unwarranted and counterproductive by most analysts, are clearly being used in a calculated manner by his campaign to appeal to America’s bigoted underbelly in the hope that the racists, hypocrites and haters of America will carry him to the Oval Office.”

“However, his latest statement indicating an inclination to specifically target US Muslims  takes his poisoned rhetoric to a new level and, on its face, expresses a policy which would be a classic example of discriminatory and there unconstitutional  government action,” he noted.

“That Trump continues to generate support for his campaign to win the Republican nomination says more about the US public than it says about him,” the analyst argued.

“The US has become a nation of unthinking hypocrites. There are of course many exceptions, indeed, many notable exceptions in the United States, but they tend to be exceptions which prove the rule rather than exceptions which cumulatively make up some kind of alternative political powerbase,” he observed. 

American way of discrimination

Grossman said that the United States has “become a country  in which the institutions of state and indeed the people - herded by decades of calculated propaganda peddled as entertainment by Hollywood - are perfectly happy to literally bend over backwards to accept  contrived legal arguments in order to create special new constitutional rights for ‘favored’ minority groups like homosexuals,  yet  for the most part remain equally willing to discriminate against individuals based on creed, ethnicity, race, religious conviction, or any other characteristics which lunatics like Trump somehow feel are contrary or a threat to the American way of life, whatever that is.”

“In this way, the US public and institutions of state create previously unheard-of human rights which, for example, entitle people to have sex with whomever or whatever they choose, while at the same time denying members of groups deemed undesirable, the unalienable human rights enshrined in the United States Constitution which were intended to protect individuals from illegitimate state action like that being proposed by Mr. Trump, the leading candidate of the GOP for presidential nomination,” the international lawyer concluded.

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