"He has stirred people up," Howard said. "We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. [....]"
Did you notice the semi-veiled assertion that Trump is racist in that spiel?
Though I don't know if your question is general or directed at Gamecock, I definitely noticed the assertion on my first reading. (I still agree with you that the assertion is "semi-veiled." I wonder if this veiling is more of a intentional sneaky wording or more of an unconscious reflection of the speaker's beliefs.)
This realization should be combined with something from post #10:
Not say bad things about people, UNLESS they are straight, white conservatives. Then it's open season, both in public and in movies, TV shows, etc.
(I wonder if non-white conservatives exist in these movies and TV shows; the most crucial part there is "conservatives," as you will find when hearing those love-filled liberals talk about Clarence Thomas.)
In similar fashion, I remembered too on my first reading something that struck me even when I was young and had imbibed much of the so-called liberalism that surrounded me. The same people who talk about "tolerance" and "peace" and "civility" will eagerly say "bad things about people" and bully people as much as they like--when they target just the right people.
(Though other things were more fundamental in my political turning, this realization was helpful. If "liberals" were actually pleasant people, I may have delayed my critical exploration until after I'd reached voting age.)
It was a general question. I am unaware of Trump uttering any racist diatribes, although I know he has been accused of it. The muslim immigration issue (which has been thoroughly lied about in “news” coverage) is less than a nothing-burger. It, literally, is stopping the government machine (at least temporarily) until its works are understood and corrected to proper function.
Trump successfully uses many liberal tactics against his opponents, both liberal and otherwise. He personifies, in some ways, the most effective of Alinky’s rules - especially the use of ridicule.
These are explicitly the tactics used by liberals every danged day.
The GOP electorate has been clamoring for someone to use these same tactics against the libs, but the GOP party bosses are too afraid to face down whatever criticism it might generate. The voters are mad as hell, and surely seem prepared to not take the GOPe bullstuff any more.