Posted on 10/31/2018 5:49:52 AM PDT by SJackson
When a vote for Trump provides a license to destroy a man’s character and credibility by any means necessary.
We live in strange times. Since the election of Donald Trump, it has often seemed as if half the country has gone blind or, more likely, lost the ability to see beyond their noses. The divisions that have resulted are so deep they have split us effectively into two nations, damaging and destroying individual relationships at every level. The political left and its media blame Trump for this fracturing of the nation’s fabric, but Trump was first the target of accusations that he was a traitor, colluding with the Russians, a racist and white nationalist betraying the country’s founding principles. And it was the Democrats who launched a “resistance” to his presidency, boycotting his inauguration and demanding his overthrow from day one of his presidency.
During the week when the FBI was searching for the Florida pipe-bomber, the anti-Trump media was busy accusing the president of inciting his violence because he referred to them as “Fake News.” According to the talking heads, chants of “CNN Sucks” at Trump rallies had directly inspired a nutcase loner with a long arrest record who had begun threatening bomb attacks decades before Trump had even entered politics. That same week, I happened to watch an MSNBC panel hosted by Nicole Wallace, where every panelist was comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. Why? Because Trump had just announced he was a “nationalist” and nationalists, according to the panel, without exception, were authoritarian dictators, like Hitler.
In fact (if anyone at MSNBC can be said to be interested in facts) the term “nationalism” was coined by Joseph Mazzini, who created the modern state of Italy. Far from being a dictator, he was a democrat. Moreover, Hitler was not exactly a nationalist, since Germany was already a powerful state. He was a racist who wanted to create an Aryan empire. But this hardly matters to MSNBC panels whose goal is to demonize the president by any means necessary. That same week CNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell was connecting Trump to Hitler in his own perverse manner. Commenting on Trump’s comment that he was a nationalist, O’Donnell said to his audience: “And we all know what word is associated with nationalism: white.”
Obviously “fake news” is much too kind a description of the openly partisan press corps whose one-time journalists are now pursuing careers as professional character assassins. The same politics of personal destruction is also the staple of many campaigns by Democratic Party candidates. None more so than in the state of Florida, where a full-fledged public lynching of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is in progress. His opponent, racial demagogue Andrew Gillum, calls every accusation of incompetence and corruption in his tenure as Tallahassee mayor as a “racist attack” because he is black. There could hardly be a more classic example of such demagoguery than this Gillum statement, “Now, I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.” [1]
I am one of those “racists” to whom Gillum is referring, perhaps even the primary one. A poor choice, one would think, since I have a public record stretching over 56-years since the publication of my first book, in which I have promoted equal rights for all Americans regardless of race or national origin. I am possibly the only conservative who publicly defended Trayvon Martin during the trial of his killer George Zimmerman. I participated in my first civil rights demonstration for African Americans in 1948, 70 years ago. Since then, I have worked tirelessly on behalf of racial equality, sometimes foolishly as when I was a leftist and raised money for and promoted the Black Panther Party, which turned out to be a criminal gang. Over the last 20 years, I have written three books and several hundred thousand words, all devoted to Martin Luther King’s vision that Americans should judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Well, I would have been a poor choice in more sober times, rather than our present circumstances where anyone on the right – or anyone who supports President Trump - is fair game for racial slanderers and a press that no longer cares about the facts. Now I find myself treated as a prop in the public lynching of DeSantis. A Washington Post headline writer described a gathering I host annually in Palm Beach – “The Restoration Weekend,” as a “racially charged event.” De Santis had attended the Weekend four times to give foreign policy speeches. So the logic was – if we were racists, then DeSantis must be.
The absurdity of the Post’s description of our event – for which no credible evidence was produced – would have been obvious to anyone familiar with our event, which we have held since 1994 with no such attacks, or with the list of our featured speakers and award winners who have included such African American leaders as J.C. Watts, Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Allen West, Jason Reilly, Charles Payne, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Sonnie Johnson and even the former Democratic Mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian Fenty.
On the basis of the false Post headline, and equally groundless accusations floating around the leftwing hate-sphere, the gathering DeSantis attended was slandered as an event hosted by “an infamous racist,” a “white supremacist,” a “hate-monger,” and an “anti-Muslim fanatic” (this last despite the fact we featured my good friend, Muslim leader Zuhdi Jasser, specifically to defend Islam in a debate with Robert Spencer). These hateful stigmas appeared in the Huffington Post, GQ, Newsweek, New York Magazine, and virtually every major paper in the state of Florida. I asked the Washington Post to print a correction, or provide me with an op-ed column to set the record straight, but to no avail.
Two weeks before the election, when DeSantis and Gillum squared off in a second televised gubernatorial debate, the moderator turned to DeSantis and the race issue. Pointing out that DeSantis had attended four Restoration Weekends hosted by me, he then claimed I had said, “If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?” This was supposed to be my racist comment. To clinch the case, he quoted a DeSantis statement that he was “a big admirer of an organization (my Freedom Center) that shoots straight, tells the American people the truth and is standing up for the right thing.” Gotcha.
My hat is off to Ron DeSantis for having the courage to defend an organization that is under such malicious attack. But the situation that a malevolent, and dishonest media had created for him was an impossible one. In fact, I have said on many occasions that no one is oppressed in America, which is an obvious truth. Otherwise why are there caravans of “people of color” trying to break into our country illegally? To be oppressed? Over a 200-year period Americans have struggled to make good on the Founders’ promise that everyone is created equal and has equal rights. Americans established constitutional amendments and established laws, crowned by the Civil Rights Acts sixty years ago, which outlawed all discrimination on the basis of race. It’s time to celebrate these victories not wallow in the oppressions of the past that are now illegal. A TV debate, however, is not a venue conducive to history lessons or unpacking complex legal victories for the edification of hostile audiences. DeSantis attempted to defend himself by asking – to the groans of the partisan audience – why he should be familiar with everything I had ever said.
What is the difference between brainwashing techniques of a cult and what the left does?
Liberals need to remove their coexist bumper stickers
One of my last Democrat friends just dumped me for my lack of compassion for the “victims” of the pipe bomber. These Democrats are crazy.
I am also on the outs with my two flaming liberal sisters, my flaming liberal brother, and my flaming liberal parents.
Those have always been an internally-coexisting joke.
We need mental health treatment centers for those afflicted with progressive syndrome and PDS.
“One of my last Democrat friends just dumped me”
You probably should consider yourself lucky to be dumped.
I would argue that the malady Horowitz is describing has always been there, the election of Trump just created the cognitive dissonance that is spurring the crazy behaviors we're seeing on display.
You have to admit it is kind of funny when “intellectuals” are confounded by the Left this way. Who did they think we’ve been dealing with all these years? It’s like watching a new inmate get ripped off left and right because he doesn’t understand the prison rules.
The Khmer Rouge is not going to join you for a debate at Yale!!!
I tell lefty family members to quit falsely accusing me of stuff.
I even offer to give them real reasons to not like me but they don’t want to hear it.
It’s like they bitterly cling to their stereotypes?
“One of my last Democrat friends just dumped me ...”
That happened to me when W was elected. AFter BHO was elected, the democrap “friend” returned all nicey and friendly, etc. I had moved on too, politicized friendship are not my thing. And happy I did. A politicized friendship is different than a friend who has a different political viewpoint.
“I tell lefty family members to quit falsely accusing me of stuff.”
I hope you point out to them that the reason the democraps should never be trusted with government power is that they accuse people of things without evidence, which is really anti-American. We saw this major league time with Kavanaugh, BUT IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Democraps have an established m.o. to accuse anyone with whom they disagree of being racist, sexist, xenophobic...and this has gone on for decades now. It is impossible for tolerant people to work/live with solving serious problems with intolerant people and their intolerant elected representatives. Trump, representing millions of decent people who have endured the same thing, is responding to their intolerance head on and they have the gall to blame him/us the deplorables for incivility.
That was your perception that the Democrat was your friend. Democrats have no friends. Democrats only have different individuals [including their relatives]they use in different ways. Once their usefulness is gone, they are discarded like an old sock. Like their blood brothers the Communists and the Socialists, it is the cause that is important and matters, not the individual.
It’s ironic that the Left gets all in a lather, accusing us of wanting to do just that, while the documented history of the Left (from Wilsonian socialism to German national socialism to Communism) to replete with re-education camps and concentration camps. Voluntary out-patient care, OTOH, is a good idea. I work that problem every day, as I’m sure you do as well.
“That was your perception that the Democrat was your friend. Democrats have no friends. Democrats only have different individuals [including their relatives]they use in different ways. Once their usefulness is gone, they are discarded like an old sock. Like their blood brothers the Communists and the Socialists, it is the cause that is important and matters, not the individual.”
I think you are right. Narcissists all.
In the present context:
Nationalist = America First
What’s funny is how the Left claims the word “Nationalist” is a dog whistle and equates it with either National Socialist or white nationalist. I guess it is a dog whistle, but only the dogs on the left can hear it. They always ignore the “Socialist” part of National Socialist. By the same logic Ocasio-Cortez is a Nazi. But we all know that isn’t true since she is really a marxist.
I can’t really discuss politics with my flaming liberal brother and barely with my claims to be moderate but is really quite liberal sister. I can at least discuss politics with my truly pretty moderate sister. Both of my best friends and almost all of my friends are clearly on the Right.
You mean the pipe bomber who didn’t send any actual bombs?
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