The Exhausted Racism Charge

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Democratic senator Dick Durbin fired the opening shot in this new round of the Second Civil War by claiming that the president referred to “sh**hole” countries, meaning Haiti, El Salvador, and some African countries. Trump denied he said it, and was supported by Senators Sonny Perdue and Tom Cotton (Republicans), who are much more believable than Durbin. Senator Lindsey Graham expressed concern about the president’s disparagements of “poor and troubled” countries (Trump’s words), but has been commendably discreet. The Democrats have retreated to the slightly higher ground of acknowledging that the president might have said “sh**house.” Though absurdly picayune, and squalid, the difference excuses the president from the charge of applying a rectal slur to nationalities and makes clear he was using a socioeconomic description of the societies of origin of many migrants and immigrants. This ludicrous distinction alone knocks out the main prop, in so far as there was one, under the Democratic charge — that Trump is a racist. The charge is nonsense, and the campaign attempt to portray the president as hostile to anyone not of white pigmentation, or even to non-Anglo-Saxons, folded like a three-dollar suitcase long ago.

The Democrats have gambled again on their ability to score against the president by scandalizing politically correct opinion and having their shrill mouthpieces in the national media blast this one around the echo chamber one more time. Trump’s solid following of 40 percent of the country has heard it all before and continues to be grateful to have a president who doesn’t perform childish PC histrionics, whatever his other foibles. The independents, a shrunken community in Trump’s America, but still holding the balance of electoral power, are getting palpably tired of being summoned to the barricades by the Ancien Régime as its hysterical catalogue of denigration of the president slowly disintegrates and descends on the heads of Trump’s accusers like confetti.

As Senator Rand Paul has pointed out, there will be no deal on immigration while the Democrats call the president a racist, and the more plausible charge against Durbin of being a liar doesn’t much lighten the atmosphere either. Trump and the Republican congressional majority will not reprieve the beneficiaries of DACA (which was unconstitutionally proclaimed by President Obama anyway), without the Democrats’ acceptance of a large part of their immigration program, which is not now in the cards. The president might want to be explicit about his immigration proposals (or “comprehensive immigration reform,” as everyone complicit in not reforming it for the last 20 years calls it). He should do something to avoid taking the blame, as Republicans traditionally do, for shutting down much of the government. If it is possible, contingency plans should be made and implemented for laying off enough of the 96 percent of the residents of the District of Columbia who voted against Trump, while keeping the Defense Department and essential services going, to knock this last, Stone Age weapon of official shutdown from the Democrats’ hands. A great many Americans would rejoice if most of the government were shut down, permanently, and it would obviate discussion about the deficit, and deal with the public-service unions once and for all.



Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455483/donald-trump-racism-democrats-false-charge
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
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You say "the Democrats" - Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake are not Democrats.

Just wanted to point that out.
 

The_Twisted_Ear

A proud Conservative!
You say "the Democrats" - Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake are not Democrats.

Just wanted to point that out.
Sorry - BUT their history of votes put them with the left. You can also include McCain on that list. Why Republican voters vote for them is beyond me!
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
You say "the Democrats" - Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake are not Democrats.

Just wanted to point that out.

Well they are certainly not Republicans.
Jeff Flake is like McCain, Just a bitter a-hole ,and Graham isn't much of anything, he is just looking around for someone to take McCains place and stick his hand up his ass and use him like a sock puppet.
 
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