January 17, 2019
It's easy to say that the Left takes this attitude out of a feeling of "sour grapes" because they were denied the White House in 2016, but that's not the case. They looked at the people who voted for Trump that way even before they voted for Trump. Indeed, it's probable that Trump is President because Hillary didn't bother to campaign for their votes. "Who needs 'em?" And it's sobering to think that if we didn't have the Electoral College. . .Recently on CNN, former Republican politico and now Never Trump cable new analyst Rick Wilson characterized Donald Trump’s supporters as his "credulous rube ten-toothed base.â€
Wilson was not original in his smear of the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump. He was likely resonating an earlier slander of Politico reporter Marco Caputo. The latter had tweeted of the crowd he saw at a Trump rally: "If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.â€
Was the point of these stereotypes that poor white working-class people who supposedly voted for the controversial Trump understandably ate improperly, did not practice proper dental hygiene, or did not visit dentists—or all three combined?
When challenged, Caputo doubled down on his invective. He snarled, "Oh no! I made fun of garbage people jeering at another person as they falsely accused him of lying and flipped him off. Someone fetch a fainting couch.â€
Dr. Hanson doesn't point it out, but the Left looks at the Right with the attitude that conservatives are stupid, evil, subhuman troglodytes; not that they are perhaps merely mistaken in their political choices, as was once the case. It's gone far beyond that. How can conversations exist anymore?Recently actor Jim Carey tweeted a picture of Trump supporters as apes, as if evolution is now operating in reverse as Trumpians descend into primate status.
Rep. Hank Johnson (who on prior occasions had referred to Jewish residents on the West Bank as "termites,†and believed that too many American troops based on the shoreline of Guam might "tip†the island over and capsize it) recently compared Trump to Hitler, and characterized Trump’s supporters—which included 90 percent of the Republican Party—as "older, less educated, less prosperous, and they are dying early. Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair." For former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump supporters are "virulent people†and "the dregs of societyâ€.
Note the force of such dehumanizing invective that transcends political differences. Trump voters were not just mistaken in their political allegiances. Instead they looked like toothless zombies and stunk up stores, and are not quite human, and are destined to die off. And all this from supposedly progressive humanists, quick to demonize others who would mimic their venom.
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