Political Art: Pretty In Pink

'Pretty In Pink' is a 16x20-inch pastel painting I made in outrage over the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. It's based on current migrant detention camps at that border. I'm continuing to post my overtly political art in the run up to the November 5, 2024 election. If Trump and the authors of Project 2025 have their way, it won't only be illegal immigrants subject to mass deportation behind fences like these.

Even before Trump was elected in 2016 I knew he was fascist when a Latino man was assaulted at a 2015 campaign rally, Trump did nothing to stop it. In later rallies, he incited his followers to "rough up" protesters. Today he continues to use the language of violence and authoritarianism. Yet back in 2015 the use of "fascist" as a descriptor was deemed in the press and oh-so-polite society as extreme, overly emotional, and hyperbolic. Now in 2024, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley (ret.) called Trump "fascist to the core". How could the pundits and commentators be so late in realizing this?

Hermann Göring (or Goering) was the #2 Nazi behind Hitler. At his 1946 trial at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, he not only attempted to justify his actions but stated how easy it was to manipulate people based on fear of "the Other", Jews, Communists, Romas, etc., a sentiment proven in the present day by Fox News and other instruments of disinformation.

The uniforms of the Nazi SS, the Schutzstaffel-Black Corps-Deaths Head Corps ad nauseam, were intended to intimidate, instill shock and awe with their appearance. If not for their ability to inflict destruction and misery, such men and those who admire them are pathetic and ridiculous individuals.