If you follow the media, this week has been full of hateful, racist, incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric from President Trump. He started over a week ago with racist remarks aimed at AOC and her squad of four. He followed on the weekend with remarks aimed at Congressional Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings. Now after mass killings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, his White Nationalist, anti-illegal immigrant remarks are being blamed for the killings.
At least that is what the media and the Democrats would have you believe. I am baffled by their constant accusations claiming President Trump is racist, hateful, a promoter of White Nationalist groups, etc. I watch the news. I read the papers. I follow current events and I have yet to hear the President say anything I would call racist. Yet the media and Democrats are quick to label everything he states as being racist. What was racist in his comments about AOC and the Squad? What was racist in what he said about Baltimore and Representative Cummings. Nothing I can find. The label of racist is their only defense. They are unable to form a rational and logical defense for their own positions and therefore fall back on calling him a racist.
It is much like the early days of the Feminist movement. Any male who took a position differing from the stated positions of the Movement was labeled a chauvinist, then later a misogynist. The same thing occurred at the beginning of the LGBT Movement. Anyone who did not fully support their position was immediately labeled homophobic. Anyone who questions radical Muslim views is labeled an Islamaphobe. This is a very typical tactic of those who really have not thought through their position and are unable to articulate a rational defense of their position. A tactic pulled straight from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
If I were a psychologist, I would say they are projecting. They project their hate for Trump and conservative values on to anyone who stands for something different. The rhetoric they use in response to what Trump says is what is hateful. I guess, however, it is understandable. The media no longer consists of journalists interested in providing the public with the facts. They are no longer journalists but pundits. They are egotistical megalomaniacs, intent on creating a narrative that will attract as many viewers/readers as possible. They are not interested in the story but their own self-aggrandizement. After all, this is what they are paid for. While the politicians are only interested in framing everything the President does in the negative for the exact same reasons.
Claiming Trump is responsible for others’ thoughts or actions is lame. If that were the case, the media would be just as responsible, for they repeat endlessly their mantra of hate. Politicians would be just as responsible because they are constantly keeping Trump the focus of all their discussion and feeding the media with a constant stream of hate in return. Like I tell my Granddaughter when someone offends you out of hate just walk away. You do not want them in your life.
