Violence and Trump

The usual leftist and "diverse" suspects are legitimating the organized disruption and violence aimed at Trump's rallies, blaming the victims as is their wont, and damning the candidate for his perfectly accurate characterizations of the protesters and his encouragement of his own supporters' resistance.

Last night, "news" organizations ran videos of him speaking out against disrupters interspersed with old video of George Wallace doing the same.

Yesterday in Kansas City he called on the police to arrest disrupters - which of course they were doing anyhow - and he has specifically laid blame on supporters of Bernie Sanders.

Trump ends wild day on campaign trail by calling for protesters' arrests

From the CNN story, this amusing tidbit.

As Trump supporters left the venue, protesters shouted and cursed at them -- and any passersby coming from the direction of the theater -- calling them "f***ing racists."

Alicia Valeanzela, who was shouting those words at people she believed to be Trump supporters, said she believed anyone supporting Trump supports a racist, xenophobic ideology.

"He's a f***ing bigot. He's an a**hole," she said.

"It's not right I'm not gonna let somebody ruin our country like that," said the 21-year-old native of Venezuela. 

"People need to know that they cannot vote for Trump, and Trump cannot become our President."

Of course, if she is an illegal her panic about his project of ethnic cleansing is perfectly understandable.

All the same, she and her cohorts are deliberately short-circuiting democracy, republican order, and legitimacy.

Trump began the day by blaming supporters of Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, of disrupting his Chicago event, where many in the audience chanted the senator's name after the rally was called off.

"Some represented Bernie, our communist friend," Trump said in Dayton, Ohio, his first campaign appearance since the Chicago event was postponed.

Sanders, far from disavowing such behavior and rejecting the support of those responsible, promptly lied and blamed the victims of his supporters' organized campaigns of sabotage, directed at Trump's events and those who attend them.

And his reaction was by no means just a slip or something let out in the heat of the moment.

Sanders, however, pushed back against Trump, calling on him to denounce violence at his rallies and labeling him a "pathological liar."

And yet, as the story relates,

The progressive group MoveOn.org, which has endorsed Sanders, said in a statement Saturday that it helped students print signs for the protests at the Chicago rally and recruit members to attend the "student-led protest."

And yet, again,

Sanders on Saturday said his supporters were not to blame for the unrest.

"I don't think our supporters are inciting. What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways, encouraged violence," Sanders said at a news conference in Chicago. 

"When he talks about ... 'I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.' What do you think that says to his supporters?"

Sanders also referred to an incident this week in which a black protester was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter as he was being led out of a rally.

"So the issue now is Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it," Sanders said.

In a statement issued later Saturday, Sanders added: "As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar."

Well, Senator, you're another.

How is it you have no obligation to tell your supporters to knock it off?

A man who rushed the stage when Trump was speaking and was tackled by security people and arrested had this transparently hypocritical and self-servingly mendacious, as well perhaps as delusional, message for the world.

In a statement, DiMassimo called for peaceful protests.

"We must nonviolently shut down every Trump rally," he said. 

"We must stop this violent, foolish man from taking this country and destroying it."

I would say that projection is the universal failing of political activists, but it is not a failing.

It is a tactic.