How those who embraced liberal talking points about conservatives helped elect Trump

I don’t like many of the things Trump said.  More things than I can count.  I was going to list all of the offensive statements that I reject, but then I realized this isn’t my full time job and I don’t have the time.  So suffice to say, I found many things he said offensive at best.  Nonetheless, for all of the things he said that were offensive to women, immigrants, minorities, and other groups, the worst that his critics have been able to say about him is the exact same thing they’ve said about almost every other non-liberal politician for the last 35 years.

Since at least Reagan, and possibly before, any and all Republicans have been called hate mongers, bigots, racists, sexists, homophobes, warmongers and morons.  Romney and McCain tried to reach across the moderate aisle and Trump ended up with more black votes than either of them.  They were still just racists and sexists in the party of hate.  Bush tried to be the compassionate conservative and we had images of James Byrd, with the usual charges of racism and sexism and every other ism under the sun.  When the GOP swept Congress it was waved off as The Angry White Male, and dismissed as a roll back to – you guessed it – racism, sexism, bigotry and hate.  And so it’s been for as long as I’ve followed politics.

Jonah Goldberg wasn’t the first to notice the ‘boy who cried wolf syndrome’ at work.  But that’s when I took notice that it wasn’t just my own observation.  If you declare Trump to be the worst person ever to run for office, yet everything that was said about him has been said for years about most of your other political opponents, then you might want to take a step back and look in the mirror when it comes to wondering why Trump is the one who will reside on Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years.