Really big argumentum ad Hitlerum, here.
Once in a while, someone focuses on the white rebellion aspect of the Trump phenom, tut-tutting, pearl-clutching, and hand-wringing, looking to affix blame.
Well, one likely candidate is a history of decades of lefty and black hatred dumped over the heads of white people like sewage.
A history nobody ever tut-tuts.
Trump supporters are by no means the only haters, and they are not the saboteurs of legitimate politics at work, here.
But not too many people are tut-tutting this anti-democratic, hate-driven outrage.
Donald Trump calls off Chicago rally amid protests and violence
A Donald Trump rally in Chicago had to be called off on Friday evening amid scenes of violence and chaos unparalleled in the recent history of American political campaigning.
The scrapping of the Republican frontrunner’s appearance due to what his campaign cited as “safety concerns” led to uproar and fights inside the University of Illinois Chicago Pavilion and in the streets outside.
Scuffles broke out between Trump supporters, protesters and police, and a number of arrests were made, including of at least one reporter.
As the mayhem took hold, Trump was reduced to complaining about the situation on the air, telling MSNBC: “It’s sad when you can’t have a rally. Whatever happened to freedom of speech?”
The rally had been due to take place at a university that is one of the most diverse in the country, at a venue situated in the heart of Chicago, a Democratic stronghold where there are few registered Republicans.
I suppose somebody, somewhere, will say this all reminds him of street fights in the Weimar Republic between Nazi and Communist thugs.
But so far it's a lot more like Communist thugs attacking neatly dressed, peace-loving, and orderly Christian Democrats.
Fights and scuffles broke out as protesters swapped blows with Trump supporters and activists eager to celebrate their apparent victory shouted “Bernie, Bernie” and “Si se puede” (“Yes we can”), while waving signs supporting the Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
A picture, possibly not entirely racially representative, shows an overwhelmingly black mob celebrating the announcement of the event's cancellation.
Lucia Graves in The Guardian simply bypasses reality, as the left so often seems to do, and instead of documenting the organized violence against Trump and the campaign to disrupt his rallies writes that Donald Trump's campaign violence is condoned all the way to the top.
Violent protests shut down Trump rally in Chicago
A Brit observer in The Telegraph gets something right, but ignores what Trump's announced intention to promptly round up and deport some 11 million people tells us about him and his enthused supporters.
I was on BBC Question Time this week and, as always, we ran through a test question before filming began: “Will Trump be president?”
One audience member asked if he wasn’t reminiscent of Hitler.
I replied that while his rhetoric is extreme and his policies wrong-headed, some of his positions are surprisingly moderate and it is hard to identify proof of personal prejudice.
Really?
Ethnic cleansing not proof enough?
Not even a hint, is it?
Moreover, many people are supporting him precisely because they are tired of being called “fascist” simply because they support controls on immigration.
He’s riding a backlash against political correctness – and the violence in Chicago is only likely to increase sympathy for him.
In the Trump imagination, Middle America is besieged by radical, anti-American voices trying to drown out alternative opinion.
Shutting down a Trump rally won’t silence Trumpism.
On the contrary, it affirms it.
Why does the Left continue to make this mistake?
The answer to that last, no doubt rhetorical, question is simply hatred.
The left is doing this out of hatred.
And how far was this another left-sponsored black tantrum entirely continuous with the whole Ferguson, #BLM thing, and how far just more academic lefty totalitarianism?
This in the Chicago Tribune is stupid, biased, and nasty.
Trump, who has discussed curbing First Amendment press freedoms, lamented he didn't get to exercise his own free-speech rights Friday night even as protesters exerting theirs shut down his rally.
Nobody ever silenced a public speaker through exercise of his own free speech rights.
There is no right to do what these people did, and did quite intentionally and deliberately.
And the Tribune joins many others in blaming Trump for the disruption, even quoting the Canadian candidate, Ted Cruz, as well as fellow losers Kasich and Rubio, to that effect with evident approval.
And Democrats Sanders and Clinton were offered and took the opportunity to blame Trump, as well.
This, of course, is the same Clinton who famously blamed an internet video that violated PC by mocking Mohammed for the Benghazi terrorist attacks, actually scheduled well in advance in celebration of the anniversary of 9/11.
This much is right.
The viral images of a largely young, ethnically and racially diverse group of protesters erasing his Chicago event could help the chances of the brash-speaking businessman and reality TV star who has eschewed political correctness along the campaign trail.
Still, however much I might share the sentiment, this that follows is Trump asking for it.
Asking to be blamed, I mean, and to be compared to that posturing bully, Mussolini.
Trump On Violence Against Protestors
Most conservatives have joined the left in blaming it all on Trump, for months calling him a fascist and a racist because he is prying the Republican Party out of their hands.
And the hypocrisy of Cruz is especially laughable, since he is himself on the deportationist, ethnic cleansing wing of the Republican Party, with Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter among his fan base.
Whatever else happens, this is certainly shaping up to be the ugliest election since the 1960s.
I can hardly wait for the Siege of Cleveland.
The pearl-clutchers lamenting the end of the American Republic are not only on the left, by any means.
SJWs will elect Trump
Social Justice Warriors, that is.
And I hope not.
I would be more in agreement with this bit if Dreher would only recall the small matter of ethnic cleansing.
How is it that he not only mentions but relies on the issue of immigration, here, as well as racial conflict, and yet is silent about that?
Liberals keep saying that if conservatives are worried about the economy and economic fairness under the neoliberal consensus (of which Hillary Clinton is a part), then they ought to be voting for Bernie Sanders.
The fact that they aren’t (the argument goes) indicates that they are, deep down, RACISTS.
What they refuse to grasp is that there is nothing about Sanders that would restrict immigration or would stand up to political correctness.
In fact, Sanders yielded to the Black Lives Matter protesters who seized his microphone in Seattle.
He is a symbol of the weakness of liberal authorities in the face of left-wing illiberalism — and for Trump voters, that, rightly so, is a deal-breaker.
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