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I have heard statements like this many times by Democrats and Never Trumpers<\/em>:<\/p>\n Before I begin I want to make it clear: I do not like it when Trump speaks crudely<\/strong>. BUT<\/strong> \u2013 Trump was not a politician until he came down that escalator. I REALLY<\/strong> like Ron DeSantis. I would vote for him to be President in a New York second: If that makes you steam with anger\u2026oh well. I can recall dozens of crude and offensive things Democrats have said\u2026but they are given a license with the media. Part of what has led to our deep division is the double-standard promoted by the media. Trump calls is \u201cfake\u201d media. But he did not start this assault on the media. For the average Trump supporter what he SAYS is not as important as what he DOES. Trump haters and Never-Trumpers seem to have short memories.<\/p>\n The political scene became very nasty in 1987 when Robert Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. (I think I watched the hearing on C-SPAN)<\/p>\n Prior to Reagan\u2019s nomination of Bork, modern SCOTUS nominations were fairly civil and uneventful. It was understood that the POTUS had a right to place judges on the court that reflected his position \u2013 after all, \u201cthe people\u201d\u00a0 elected the President.<\/p>\n Immediately after the Bork nomination Ted Kennedy issued his infamous statement on the Senate floor which begins with, \u201cRobert Bork\u2019s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions\u2026\u201d Then Kennedy continued\u2026and added racist allegations in his rhetoric.<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s first point in that statement spoke the obvious: The 1991 Clarence Thomas hearing only continued the Bork tactics and the Democrats increased the volume. (I watched the hearing on CNN) Clarence Thomas famously called the hearing \u201ca high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n I agree 100% with the Joe Nocera quote above. These personal attacks on Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas introduced the vitriol in politics\u2026years before<\/strong> Donald Trump ever came on the scene.<\/p>\n Both of these examples were perpetrated by the Democratic Left to protect Roe vs. Wade.<\/p>\n Republican Never-Trumpers have Short Memories<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2000 Karl Rove served as GW Bush\u2019s attack dog against<\/strong> John McCain in the primaries. They (\u201cthe Bush people\u201d) said ugly things about McCain\u2019s wife and accused him of fathering a black child<\/a> (the little girl he and his wife adopted from India).<\/p>\n Never-Trumpers who seem to posture with a \u201cholier-than-thou\u201d attitude towards Trump need to embrace this kind of Republican vitriol that happened years before<\/strong> Donald Trump ever came on the scene.<\/p>\n Just think for a moment about the nasty attacks against GW Bush. Calling him a \u201cdrunkard,\u201d his \u201ccowboy\u201d strut (his response was Reagan-like, \u201cit\u2019s called\u2026walking\u201d). Then the media thought it was a good idea to<\/em> bring the Bush daughters <\/em>into the political fray. Do a Google search for \u201ccnn bush twins caught drinking in public\u201d to see how gleeful CNN was to cover this story. I thought children were supposed be left out of the political fray? If anyone said anything negative about the Obama girls the fake news lost their minds\u2026yet the media went after the Bush daughters with delight. More vitriol and divisiveness years before<\/strong> Donald Trump ever came on the scene.<\/p>\n You read correctly \u2013 racist. Obama famously said Americans in rural and struggling parts of Pennsylvania \u201cget bitter, they cling to guns or religion.\u201d This was taken by many white, rural Americans as a veiled reference to stupidity and racism\u2026and it also seemed to \u00a0mock Christian faith. Obama was allowed to make those kinds of comments, being \u201cthe first mainstream African-American who is articulate\u2026and clean<\/a>\u201d (a Joe Biden gaffe). We were all expected to overlook Obama\u2019s divisive comments AND good ol\u2019 uncle Joe\u2019s crudeness.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s comment above was offensive, divisive and stupid. Rural people took it for what it was \u2013 crude, racist and divisive. But because the mainstream media agreed with Obama\u2019s comment<\/a>\u2026it is not remembered.)<\/p>\n Obama made other stupid comments\u2026just like Trump does. 2009: <\/strong>\u201cThe police acted stupidly.\u201d He made this comment against the law enforcement community very early in his first term. Obama liked to make uninformed statements in critical moments of racial strife when, as a nation, we needed his unifying voice \u2013 we needed the man who had promised unity in his acceptance speech (\u201cnot red America, not blue America, but the United States of America.\u201d)<\/p>\n 2012:<\/strong> Before anyone knew the facts Obama said \u201cIf I had a son, he\u2019d look like Trayvon.\u201d George Zimmerman was acquitted in his trial after an eyewitness testified that Trayvon had Zimmerman pinned on the ground and was apparently throwing blows down on him.<\/p>\n 2014:<\/strong> Again, Obama commented on the death of Michael Brown in the Ferguson, MO incident before the trial<\/strong>. This incident was referred to by the slogan \u201chands up, don\u2019t shoot.\u201d Obama\u2019s statement was measured, but tinged throughout with an undercurrent against the police<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yet after calling on the DOJ to do a federal investigation and trial, the police officer was acquitted a second time. Unfortunately, Ferguson was already a pile of ashes. This article is NOT an attack on Obama or on anyone else \u2013 I am illustrating the FACT that division existed while Trump was doing The Apprentice<\/em> TV show.<\/p>\n His announcement speech. It is easy to hear what you WANT to hear. He clearly says, \u201cAnd some, I assume, are good people.\u201d Trump never said \u201call Mexicans\u201d coming across the border are rapists. He is using hyperbole, a rhetorical device \u2013 overstate your case to make sure the audience understands the message. It is used quite often-<\/a>hyperbole<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump consistently uses hyperbole\u2026and the media consistently call him a liar\u2026as if he was truly calling the brown, metal wall on the southern border \u201cbeautiful.\u201d It is obvious that beauty <\/em>is NOT his main point.<\/p>\n He obviously was NOT saying \u201cALL Mexicans\u201d crossing the border were criminals: he clearly said \u201cI assume.\u201d If he really meant \u201call\u201d were bad he would likely have said something like, \u201conly a very small percent are good people.\u201d The media lies\u2026Surprise!<\/p>\n Keep Reading\u2026even if you are getting angry with me! I had a phone call discussion with a good friend a few years ago about Trump. He repeated the media racist narrative<\/em> on Charlottesville. While we were on the phone I downloaded the full transcript off politico.com<\/em><\/a> so I could read it to him.<\/p>\n As I read the transcript he kept stopping me to ask, Because the media repeated a lie over and over\u2026and he had never heard what Trump had actually said. If you are a Trump hater I urge you to read the full transcript. I am using the transcript on Politico \u2013 hardly a rightwing media source.<\/p>\n Trump also pointed out (with media reporters constantly interrupting him) what was NOT being reported by most of the Trump hating media:<\/p>\n 1. The original protesters had a legal permit<\/strong> to march. They were there to voice their opposition to the removal of a statute of Robert E. Lee.\u00a0 There were racists there\u2026but there were also many people who simply did not want an historical monument to be destroyed (which is against the law).<\/p>\n 2. The counter-protesters showed up with bats and chains, looking for violence \u2013 they did NOT have a permit.<\/p>\n I saw this reported on the national news the day AFTER the incident. I saw it with my own eyeballs. Antifa and some BLM people<\/a>. The opening photo of this ABC News article makes it clear: some of them came expecting\/wanting violence. NOW you cannot find this video footage. It has been removed\u2026hidden. Counter-protesters came to do battle. The TIME article below has a few photographs that give evidence to what I am reporting here.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cDonald Trump is crude and arrogant. He brought the lack of civility to our politics with his divisive,
\nabusive comments and
\ndisrespectful name-calling.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nSome of his comments and name-calling are uncalled for and crude. Oftentimes he says things I wish he had left unsaid.<\/p>\n
\nAND<\/strong> \u2013 some of his name calling is light-hearted and funny. \u201cLittle Marco\u201d was funny. So was \u201clow energy Jeb.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBut \u201cRon DeSanctimonious\u201d was hilarious! and effective!<\/p>\nTrump says what millions of his supporters are thinking.
\nThat is, in part, why he is loved.<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nLong ago conservatives started referring to the \u201cClinton News Network\u201d \u2013 CNN.<\/p>\n
\nBut that is another article.<\/p>\nThe Division Started Long Ago<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The vitriol we have in our politics in 2024
\nstarted more than 30 years ago.<\/em><\/h4>\nYou Been \u201cBorked\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nthe Democrats were worried about a \u201cswing vote\u201d to reverse Roe v. Wade.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
In 2011, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera claimed that
\n\u201c[t]he Bork fight, in some ways, was the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics.\u201d \u00a0<\/em>[Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u201cA High-Tech Lynching\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nAnita Hill became the role model for women who would seemingly come out of nowhere to accuse a conservative of sexual harassment\u2026after years of silence<\/em>.<\/p>\nWhat About Racist Comments by Obama?<\/h3>\n
\nThe only difference: Obama always spoke in a very polished and measured way. But it should still be remembered that he made comments that stoked the racial divide rather than what he had promised when elected.<\/p>\n\u201cReckless rhetoric inflamed anti-law-enforcement
\nsentiment in the country <\/em>and
\ninfluenced attacks on police\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>[Cape Cod Times<\/a>]<\/h3>\n
\n[See the Manhattan Institiute, \u201cObama\u2019s Ferguson Sellout\u201d<\/a>]\n<\/p>Trump\u2019s Divisiveness? Let\u2019s Look at a Few Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nThe Left accused him of calling ALL people crossing the border \u201ccriminals\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d people. His comment begins \u201cthey\u2019re not sending their best\u2026\u201d Read the transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n[I think some readers may feel this way about my recall of Obama\u2019s divisive comments.]\nBUT\u2026if you hate Trump, it is easy to miss what he says\u2026and to misinterpret him.<\/p>\n
\nHe was using rhetoric to make the point that bad people were coming across the border. <\/strong>THAT was his focus. ICE had been tracking MS-13 in the USA since 2005 with over 4,000 arrests. Take a look at this study from the Center for Immigration Studies<\/u><\/em>, \u201cMS-13 Arrests by ICE: 2005-2014<\/a>\u201c<\/u><\/p>\nThe Charlottesville Comments<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n[The media overwhelmingly used these comments to the press as support of Trump\u2019s racism. Kamala Harris misrepresented these comments in the debate a few nights ago.]\n<\/p>
\n\u201cWait a minute\u2026Are you commenting or reading the transcript?\u201d
\nWhy did he ask me this question?<\/strong><\/p>\nTrump clearly<\/strong> denounced the white supremacists<\/em>.
\nHe also condemned<\/strong> the action of the young man who had used his car as a weapon and killed the young women.<\/h4>\nMany Counter-Protesters Came Looking for Violence<\/h3>\n