A lot of people hate Donald
Trump. I get it. They’ve made that abundantly clear.
But hate’s not enough to win people over; that is, if those
who hate even care to win over others. And there’s nothing to show they do.
Their hate is apparently designed simply to intimidate, not
persuade. That’s all I can see.
Some people hated Obama, too, when he was in office. Still, I don’t remember the Obama haters
going to the extremes Trump haters are.
Obama haters didn’t target Obama Administration officials
and harass them and their families in restaurants and at their homes. Nor did
anyone burn the carcass of a decapitated animal outside someone’s home. Nor did
anyone shoot at members of Congress playing baseball just because they were in
the same political party as the President they hate.
There have always been nutjobs among us. There are more today; it’s a function of the
law of big numbers. If the crazies are
always a fixed percentage of the population, then the absolute number increases
as the populations grows.
Believe it or not, bad behavior and threats of violence against politicians and their families by nut-case leftists wasn’t always
praised by Democrat party leaders, Hollywood types, and the media. Now it is,
except when it doesn’t suit their narrative – then it’s buried. Any bad
behavior by anyone on the right, however, makes headline news for weeks.
When Democrat Gabby Giffords was shot the media raced to pin
the blame on far-right extremists; when it turned out the shooter was
actually a leftist loon the media quickly forgot about the politics. A Sanders-supporter
nutjob exclusively targeted Republicans and their staffs practicing for an
annual baseball game with Democrats, and seriously wounded Republican Steve Scalise; the media downplayed the political
aspect.
A crackpot white supremacist – with no ties to Trump or
Republicans – crashed his car into protestors at Charlottesville killing and
maiming people; the media and Democrats quickly blamed the politics of Trump
and Republicans for encouraging and condoning right-wing violence.
There seems to be no limit to the hypocrisy. Or available
proof. Democrats and the media seem to
forget that in this digital age, there’s always a video record of everything.
Not that many years ago, prominent Democrats Chuck Schumer,
Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and even President Obama railed against illegal
immigration, and supported securing our borders to keep out illegals. They saw illegal immigrants as criminals and a
threat to jobs and wages for American citizens. Now, stopping illegal immigration
and securing our borders are a crime against humanity because these same
Democrats sense it’s a good political issue to work.
Democrats and the media were also on the bandwagon for more “civility”
and respect for the office of the President throughout Obama’s term. When one Republican
Congressman interrupted then-President Obama’s address to Congress by shouting
“You lie” when Obama said illegals wouldn’t be covered under ObamaCare, the
left and the media were outraged.
Now, however, the media is perfectly fine with Democrats in
Congress taking to the air waves to denounce this current President as a liar, a racist, a fascist, and a clone of Hitler. One compared Trump’s policy on separating
minors from illegal immigrant adults at our border to Nazi tactics at
Auschwitz. So much for civility and
respect for the office of President.
The hatred on the left is all consuming.
When a train carrying Republicans and their families to a
retreat derailed, causing multiple injuries and the death of a truck driver,
there were celebrities and also talking heads in the media who suggested the
derailment was divine intervention to punish Republicans. Seriously.
In fairness, civility in American politics is a ship that
sailed long ago.
Also in fairness, Trump himself doesn’t help matters.
A major part of the current horrific behavior on the left is
because they don’t have any reasonable alternatives to Trump’s policies. More
importantly, they are seeing for the first time that a significant portion of
America – perhaps even a majority at times – doesn’t support the left’s and the
Democrats’ agenda. Rather than adjust their position to match popular
sentiment, they are resorting to bullying tactics. They don’t have anything
else.
And that’s clearly not working. Which makes them even crazier.
No matter how many times the media tries to make the case
for them, that’s failing, too. The
public is simply not buying it anymore.
In terms of the dust up over minors detained for illegal
immigration, the public doesn’t blame our immigration laws for the troubles at
the border – it blames the parents who brought those minors, and especially
those who put their kids in the hands of human traffickers to get here.
While the public has sympathy for the children, it still
generally supports cracking down and deporting people coming here
illegally. It doesn’t think minors
should be separated from their parents, but it’s okay with detaining and then deporting the
parents and their kids together. In terms of unaccompanied
illegal immigrant minors, it thinks we’re doing the best we can.
The public doesn’t want open borders; Democrats and the left
do. The public wants to tighten security
and enforcement at our borders; Democrats and the left don’t. Democrats and the left support allowing sanctuary cities to shield illegal immigrant criminals from deportation; the public doesn't. Now Democrats and the left want to abolish
ICE, the agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws and deporting illegal immigrant criminals; most Americans don't.
The Democrats hated the Trump tax cuts; the public liked getting more money
back. Democrats and the left claimed
these would only make greedy corporate executives richer and do nothing for the
common working people; many corporations and small businesses instead gave
bonuses and raises to their employees, and pumped up their 401(k)s, which those employees appreciated.
When Democrats held control, Harry Reid changed the rules on
confirming Federal court appointments to stop Republicans from using
filibusters to delay approval of left-leaning judges. Now Trump has the opportunity to use the same “nuclear option” once again to replace Anthony Kennedy with a
conservative Justice. Democrats and the
left are beside themselves with outrage. The public, not so much.
Here’s the worst part for Democrats and the left: the public
may not like Trump as a person, but the public generally approves of what he’s
accomplished. For the first time in many years, most Americans think the
country is headed in the right direction. Unemployment is down, wages are up, and the
economy is booming, which should never have happened according to the
Democrats, the left, the media, and the never-Trumpers. That’s a complete repudiation of the
progressive agenda favored by Democrats and the left, and the dogma of
establishment Republicans as well.
So with the mid-terms approaching, Democrats and the left are
apoplectic.
They can bash Trump, harass his people all they want, and
ridicule his behavior, but what Trump is doing, what he’s accomplishing, is
more important to the public than whether he is the type of person you want
your kids to grow up to emulate.
Talking heads and pundits say the problem is simply that
Democrats and the left haven’t clearly articulated their message to the
public.
In truth they have. It’s the opposite of whatever Trump
favors, no matter what that is. And they hate Trump, hate his policies, hate
the people in his administration, and hate his supporters.
They’ve done an exceptional job of getting that message out.
They’re working with the only thing they’ve got:
irrational hate.
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