They know but one bad song
Washington Post's Dana Milbank covers Hillary's slur tune
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'Basket of Deplorables, right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
- Hillary Clinton, during Sept. 2016 fundraiser
Nearly two years have passed since Hillary gave the back of her hand to a substantial swath of America. Still, opponents of President Trump persist in similarly slurring the 63+ million hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens who rallied to the Make America Great Again cause.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank's enthusiastic and deceitful damning of average Americans may enjoy favor on MSNBC's lunatic Hardball With Chris Matthews, as well as in the pages of Jeff Bezos' vanity newsletter, but elsewhere it stands evident as bilge.
Ten or 20 years from now, wrote Milbank, America will be much closer to the majority-minority nation it is forecast to become in 2045. A racist backlash to a black president wouldn't matter as much.
But what was naively proclaimed in 2008 as a post-racial America was instead kindling for white insecurity, and Trump cunningly exploited and stoked racial grievance with his subtle and overt nods to white nationalism. He is now leading the backlash to the Obama years and is seeking to extend white dominion as long as possible, with attempts to stem immigration, to suppress minority voting and to deter minority census participation.
("Obama was right: He came too early" Milbank / Washington Post 6/1/2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-brings-on-the-death-throes-of-white-hegemony/2018/06/01/0cf2d636-65c7-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.30985ac73746)
Upholding national sovereignty against criminal invaders is legitimate. So are ensuring electoral and citizenship integrity.
Having noted that, let's now ignore Milbank's doggedly partisan waving of untruths.
Instead, focus on Milbank's foul smearing of his good-hearted fellow citizens. I wrote of them in my 2017 book That a Man Can Again Stand Up (Bromley Press):
To paraphrase legendary screenwriter / director Frank Capra, common men do the living and dying in America. Was it too much to ask that they do that living and dying in a truly secure, free country? After all, no one had more right to guide government.
The common citizens heal the ill, mop the floors, fix the televisions, conceive of new technologies, build the homes, and drive the buses.
They are police, firemen, teachers, store clerks, farm hands, miners, mechanics, pilots, waiters, and a million other everyday types.
Hard-working, tax-paying American citizens applauded Trump's message of traditional national pride, as well as his inspirational, adamant pledge to reassert a unifying American identity that included all. They saw the glass as half full, not half empty. To their minds, the United States should never be defined solely by its missteps, which every nation has on its historical account, but instead by its abundant potential and massive successes.
The America evoked by Donald Trump was the one they believed in. The one that their parents, grandparents, and more distant ancestors had built. A marvelous experiment in which men of all backgrounds, assured equality of opportunity, can not only dream of security and upward mobility but achieve it handsomely through educational initiative and plain old elbow grease.
The country whose proud character they rallied to support by endorsing Trump had saved the world from oppressive ideologies. Genuinely free men cannot abide spiritually suffocating dogmas, regardless of how clever such might seem on antiseptic collegiate textbook pages.
The common man who surged to the cause of the unorthodox candidate understood the gravity of the 2016 election. Far more than merely an electoral process, it was a struggle for dominance between an establishment Goliath plotting borderless globalism and a common-people David fighting a patriotic mission to preserve time-honored liberty and national sovereignty.
At stake was America, itself.
In 2916, Hillary didn't understand what actually compelled us. Dana Milbank still doesn't.
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Washington Post's Dana Milbank covers Hillary's slur tune
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'Basket of Deplorables, right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
- Hillary Clinton, during Sept. 2016 fundraiser
Nearly two years have passed since Hillary gave the back of her hand to a substantial swath of America. Still, opponents of President Trump persist in similarly slurring the 63+ million hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens who rallied to the Make America Great Again cause.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank's enthusiastic and deceitful damning of average Americans may enjoy favor on MSNBC's lunatic Hardball With Chris Matthews, as well as in the pages of Jeff Bezos' vanity newsletter, but elsewhere it stands evident as bilge.
Ten or 20 years from now, wrote Milbank, America will be much closer to the majority-minority nation it is forecast to become in 2045. A racist backlash to a black president wouldn't matter as much.
But what was naively proclaimed in 2008 as a post-racial America was instead kindling for white insecurity, and Trump cunningly exploited and stoked racial grievance with his subtle and overt nods to white nationalism. He is now leading the backlash to the Obama years and is seeking to extend white dominion as long as possible, with attempts to stem immigration, to suppress minority voting and to deter minority census participation.
("Obama was right: He came too early" Milbank / Washington Post 6/1/2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-brings-on-the-death-throes-of-white-hegemony/2018/06/01/0cf2d636-65c7-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.30985ac73746)
Upholding national sovereignty against criminal invaders is legitimate. So are ensuring electoral and citizenship integrity.
Having noted that, let's now ignore Milbank's doggedly partisan waving of untruths.
Instead, focus on Milbank's foul smearing of his good-hearted fellow citizens. I wrote of them in my 2017 book That a Man Can Again Stand Up (Bromley Press):
To paraphrase legendary screenwriter / director Frank Capra, common men do the living and dying in America. Was it too much to ask that they do that living and dying in a truly secure, free country? After all, no one had more right to guide government.
The common citizens heal the ill, mop the floors, fix the televisions, conceive of new technologies, build the homes, and drive the buses.
They are police, firemen, teachers, store clerks, farm hands, miners, mechanics, pilots, waiters, and a million other everyday types.
Hard-working, tax-paying American citizens applauded Trump's message of traditional national pride, as well as his inspirational, adamant pledge to reassert a unifying American identity that included all. They saw the glass as half full, not half empty. To their minds, the United States should never be defined solely by its missteps, which every nation has on its historical account, but instead by its abundant potential and massive successes.
The America evoked by Donald Trump was the one they believed in. The one that their parents, grandparents, and more distant ancestors had built. A marvelous experiment in which men of all backgrounds, assured equality of opportunity, can not only dream of security and upward mobility but achieve it handsomely through educational initiative and plain old elbow grease.
The country whose proud character they rallied to support by endorsing Trump had saved the world from oppressive ideologies. Genuinely free men cannot abide spiritually suffocating dogmas, regardless of how clever such might seem on antiseptic collegiate textbook pages.
The common man who surged to the cause of the unorthodox candidate understood the gravity of the 2016 election. Far more than merely an electoral process, it was a struggle for dominance between an establishment Goliath plotting borderless globalism and a common-people David fighting a patriotic mission to preserve time-honored liberty and national sovereignty.
At stake was America, itself.
In 2916, Hillary didn't understand what actually compelled us. Dana Milbank still doesn't.
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posted by DC Larson at
June 03, 2018
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