Have the anti-Trump zealots on the political Left lost their minds?
One might think so upon reading some of the things that those zealot have said lately.
First, here the beginning of a Huffington Post column by Zach Carter:
There are three possible choices to be made in the logical universe in which a political party is running a fascist campaign. People can 1) join the fascists, 2) lose to the fascists or 3) defeat the fascists. The Clinton campaign wants credit for not choosing door No. 1. Their job was to make option three a reality. History will remember them for number two.”
Actually, Carter’s claims are the big Number Two, as syndicated columnist Larry Elder explains:
Following Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat, Democrats and pundits predicted GOP defeats as far as the eye could see, because there aren’t enough white voters for Republicans to win. But now the narrative is, “Trump won by appealing to white voters.” Could they please pick one and stick to it?”
Elder goes on to present facts that Zach Carter and those who agree with him somehow missed:
Some anti-Trump zealots – such as Zach Carter – have gone so far as to claim that Trump and his aides are fascists? Why? Because of Trump’s emphasis on putting the needs of all Americans ahead of the needs or desires of non-Americans.
Regarding “the interests of one’s own citizenry,” Michael Barone writes, “To the left that smacks of nationalism, which some seem to regard as only a baby step away from Nazism.”
Larry Elder writes, “If Democrats truly believe that racism carried the day for Trump, they’re even more out of touch than initially thought.”
Indeed, that one time that Trump referred to certain Mexicans as being rapists, he was referring to criminals from Mexico who have entered the USA through illegal means. Trump wasn’t referring to all Mexicans, and he wasn’t referring to the Mexicans who followed the rules and entered the USA through legal means.
The claim that Trump is a fascist is ludicrous when considering the definition of fascism:
Fascism is what one finds in Cuba, not in Trump Tower.
The Anti-Trump Tantrum of the Year for 2016 comes from Missoula, Montana resident Stephanie Land, whose recent political tantrum was published in the Washington Post.
Land ends her tantrum with this: “There is no room for dating in this place of grief. Dating means hope. I’ve lost that hope in seeing the words “President-elect Trump.””
Howard Kurtz writes, “Poor Stephanie is depressed, so she doesn’t feel like dating, and it’s all Trump’s fault for messing things up. Sad! I can’t remember when I’ve read a piece so lame.”
The bigger problem with Land’s claim against Trump is that it is a lie, which is evident when one reads Land’s 01/15/16 blog post.
In other words, Land’s decision not to date was made before the 2016 presidential election.
In her anti-Trump rant, Land describes her fear: “Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that they power might go out. The world felt that precarious to me.”
As it turns out, Land didn’t need a Trump victory to make her panic, as evident by her 01/25/16 blog post:
Apparently, being an anti-Trump writer means not telling one’s Washington Post audience that one has a history of having panic attacks for no good reason.
To those who continue to whine about Trump’s election, Democrat writer Bryan Dean Wright has this to say:
Only time will tell if the anti-Trump zealots will stop their tantrums and false claims and start acting like adults. Meanwhile, their attempts to delegitimize Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency are pathetic.
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