Posted on 06/25/2018 9:37:24 PM PDT by kiryandil
Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi. This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance, perhaps because most people tacitly agree that it’s O.K. to shun professional racists.
It’s a little more complicated when the professional racist is the president of the United States. The norms of our political life require a degree of bipartisan forbearance. But treating members of Donald Trump’s administration as ordinary public officials rather than pariahs does more to normalize bigotry than exercising alongside a white separatist.
Over the last week, several Trump administration officials and supporters have been publicly shamed. On Friday night, the Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Va. That morning, protesters blasted a recording of sobbing migrant kids outside the home of Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump’s secretary of homeland security...
...Whether or not you think public shaming should be happening, it’s important to understand why it’s happening. It’s less a result of a breakdown in civility than a breakdown of democracy. Though it’s tiresome to repeat it, Donald Trump eked out his minority victory with help from a hostile foreign power. He has ruled exclusively for his vengeful supporters, who love the way he terrifies, outrages and humiliates their fellow citizens. Trump installed the right-wing Neil Gorsuch in the Supreme Court seat that Republicans stole from Barack Obama. Gorsuch, in turn, has been the fifth vote in decisions on voter roll purges and, on Monday, racial gerrymandering that will further entrench minority rule...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It is all over internet..Red Hen restaurant silent partner is registered sex offender....Barney Allen Frazier....
OMG you can almost see her self righteous spittle all over the monitor!
Sorry princess. Americans learned a long time ago that a “democracy”, as you like to call it, is nothing but total chaos run by a mob of blithering idiots. That’s why we went with a republic. Get yourself a civics book princess and have someone read and explain it to you.
It’s clearly time to publicly shame NY Times typists. Point them out if you recognize one.
Hate to harp on this, but we are not a democracy.
We are a constitutional republic.
I'll bet she soiled her adult underwear online.
Harassing does not equal shaming. But the delusions of these leftists thinking they are morally superior can be dangerous.
this horrible woman seems fine with urging the already unhinged leftists to violence.
And that if the problem crops up, they'll just use their federal alphabet agencies to "deal with it".
Not so fast, "Shelly" - the Deplorables now know that Zero and his govthugs used the IRS, the DOJ, the federal judgeships, the FBI and the spy agencies on "enemies of the state".
So we're going to do the same thing to YOUR people, and if you use the .gov gunthugs on us, things are going to get REAL nasty, real fast.
What he said.
Right off the bat I knew the article would be written by a Jew. I must be Psychic...
The author is no more a jew than Paul Ryno is a conservative republican.
Let’s serve the rudest thing we can serve up. That’ll teach them manners by wonderful example and inspiration.
Rotsa ruck detaching yourself from the web now.
Lies from the failing New York Times from start to finish.
I love how it lectures us about the death of democracy when the Deep State it aided and abetted did everything it could to subvert it.
And don’t get me started on civility. I have had enough!
“Democracy” appears to be only their party’s piece of it...
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