Press targets voters for fueling Trump's rise

The Washington Examiner ^ | May 31, 2016 | Eddie Scarry

[2ndDivisionVet]

Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump, and say their collective decision to make him the presumptive Republican nominee is a terrible mistake.

Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."

"I don't mean the occasional yahoo who turns a Trump rally into a hate fest," he wrote. "I mean the ones who do nothing. Who are silent. Who look the other way… I always knew who Trump was. It's the American people who have come as a surprise.

Conservative writer Michael Gerson, also of the Post, blamed GOP voters for thrusting Trump into the general election....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Who do they think they are?

[Nifster]

They (the DC political class and their press minions) think we are lower than pond scum. I mean how dare we not pay attention to them?

[blackdog]

Wow! Talk about a disconnect from personal and professional responsibility? I would guess all mirrors have been removed from the surroundings of these hacks?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

For criticizing people for supporting Trump PRECISELY because he has stated a certain religious group which wants to kill us should be banned entry into the United States is why these people are my permanent enemies.

[Rembrandt]

Yeah, those voters have a pretty lousy record of late. They elected the worst President ever in the Kenyan and now they’re trying to correct their mistake. Offhand, I’d say the voters are making a pretty good recovery!

[Eddie01]

Communists Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump

there. fixed it.

[BenLurkin]

And electing Obama wasn’t a mistake?

Where were these clowns in 2008?

[ClearCase_guy]

Are they claiming that the voters played a role in selecting the party’s nominee??

Has this ever happened before??

An amazing occurrence!

[Parmy]

Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."

Good! The Communists should be afraid. Very afraid.

[JBW1949]

“...Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump...”

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Uhhhhh....Well, yeah.....

Those darn pesky voters......

[Robert DeLong]

Well they are correct, but it was the Obama voters that energized the GOP voters to thrust Trump into the general election, along with the weak-kneed Republican establishment.

[Olog-hai]

These are the same ones that cheer on the exhortation of “(l)et the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution” as written in the Manifesto’s fourth chapter, too.

[Nellie Wilkerson]

....the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."

Reads like satire.

[Free in Texas]

Actually it’s the traitorous leftist Praetorian Guard media members such as Cohen that necessitated the rise of Trump or someone like him by their perversion of the trust and protections afforded to journalists.

[Vic S]

Cohen? Kristol? Gerson? I’m starting to think they just look at America’s role in the world as going to war against Islam to help Israel. Trump threatens that role.

[Bringbackthedraft]

the ones who do nothing......................... Aren’t they committed to Hillary? WTF gave us Hillary? The media! It was the best they could find and they are still trying to jam her down our throats regardless of her incompetency. I can see a Biden/Warren Ticket coming, they have to do something, Hillary is an albatross around the Dem’s neck.

[clearcarbon]

"Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of 'fear of my fellow Americans.'"

Sensing the distant storm approaching. Does it smell like vengeance?

[dfwgator]

"Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of 'fear of my fellow Americans.'"

Be afraid, Richard, be very afraid.

[glaseatr]

"fear of my fellow Americans."

Maybe it's time he feared "his" fellow Americans.

[Kozy]

The inside the beltway criminals, liars, thieves create the environment for Donald Trump to rise to the top. Hillary takes money from muslim countries where woman are slaves and have no rights. Where gays are killed. She is void of morals and ethics. She can't get near 1600 Pemmsylvania Ave again.