{"id":296835,"date":"2019-01-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296835"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:26:40","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-who-trump-haters-hate-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/16\/victor-davis-hanson-on-who-trump-haters-hate-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on Who Trump Haters Hate the Most"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to try… Folks, this is gonna be really tough \u2019cause I\u2019ve got six pages here. But as they say, “It\u2019s important.” I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a column\/essay written today by Victor Davis Hanson. It\u2019s published at www.Hoover.org. He works at the Hoover Institute, which is on the campus of Stanford. The title of his piece is “A License to Hate,”<\/a> and it is a piece that points out and marvels at the ability of the left to engage in some of the most insultingly hate-filled rhetoric in the form of allegations against you, me, and Trump, and they never get called on it.<\/p>\n

\"\"While they have this exemption to engage in all of the just filthy, mean-spirited hatred that they harbor, let anybody say anything they disagree with, and they start calling it hate and they start trying to shut it down. What he\u2019s done here is gotten some examples of some of this hatred, and it really is instructive. “Recently on CNN, former Republican politico and now Never Trump cable new analyst Rick Wilson…” By the way, this guy Wilson? He\u2019s got the ability to be funny, but he is so filled with hatred for Trump that it\u2019s hard to catalog it. It is hard to contain it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a card-carrying Never Trumper and just despises Trump, just hates his guts — irrationally so. “Recently on CNN … Rick Wilson characterized Donald Trump\u2019s supporters as his ‘credulous rube ten-toothed base.'” It\u2019s in quotes, “‘credulous rube ten-toothed base.\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

“[Caputo] had tweeted of the crowd he saw at a Trump rally: ‘If you put everyone\u2019s mouths together in this video, you\u2019d get a full set of teeth.\u2019 Was the point of these stereotypes that poor white working-class people who supposedly voted for [Trump] ate improperly, did not practice proper dental hygiene, or did not visit dentists \u2014 or all three combined,” or are they just plain stupid and that\u2019s how you describe somebody stupid as having no teeth?<\/p>\n

“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.\u2019 Caputo\u2019s ‘Garbage people\u2019 was also a synonym for the smears that two career FBI agents on separate occasions had called the archetypical Trump voters,” garbage people. That would be Peter Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page, some of that cabal there.<\/p>\n

“In the released trove of the Department of Justice text communications involving the Clinton email probe, an unidentified FBI employee had texted to another FBI attorney his abject contempt for the proverbial Trump voter and indeed middle America itself: ‘Trump\u2019s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS [‘pieces of sh*t\u2019].\u2019 In fact, Trump in 2016 received about 90% of all Republican votes, about the same ratio as won by both recent presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney.”<\/p>\n

\"\"So the same people that voted for McCain and Romney voted for Trump. Are they a bunch of “poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy” pieces of excrement? “In the now notorious text communications between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, fired FBI operatives on Robert Mueller\u2019s special counsel team, Strzok right before the 2016 election had texted his paramour Page: ‘Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.'”<\/p>\n

These are people, by the way, who never expect this stuff to be seen. This is how they\u2019re talking to each other. This is the contempt. These are elites. These are establishmentarian types. This is part and parcel of the contemptuous, arrogant condescension that the people in Washington have for everybody else. “Recently actor Jim Carey tweeted a picture of Trump supporters as apes…<\/p>\n

“Rep. Hank Johnson (who … believed that too many American troops based on the shoreline of Guam might ‘tip\u2019 the island over and capsize it) recently compared Trump to Hitler, and characterized Trump\u2019s supporters \u2014 which included 90% of the Republican Party \u2014 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

“For former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump supporters are ‘virulent people\u2019 and ‘the dregs of society.'” Of course, Hillary and the deplorables comes to mind. “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 [liberals\u2019, quick to demonize others who would mimic their venom.”<\/p>\n

You know liberals are right there; if they hear anybody talking like this about them, why, it\u2019s the end of the world. “At about the same time as Wilson\u2019s recent smear, multimillionaire TV personality Donny Duetsch [sic] weighed in on television about the Trump supporters who favor building a barrier on the southern border… ‘This is all [Trump] has left. That one metaphor, that one thing that talks to that 39, 40, 41% base that says:<\/p>\n

“‘Either the black man, or the brown man, or the Jewish man, or the media man, or the banker man is coming to take your wife?\u2019 According to Duetsch\u2019s analysis, were the legions of Democrats \u2014 including Sens. Biden and Chuck Schumer\u2014who supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006 … also worried over their virility or is just the working middle class? Both Wilson and Deutsch in the past had also characterized Trump supporters as Nazi-like.<\/p>\n

“Both, in lieu of any analyses of why or how Trump got elected or has found success in restoring the economy to robust growth, resorted to crude stereotypes of a constituency in a fashion they knew would be exempt from criticisms of bias and crude stereotyping. Similarly, for historian Jon Meacham and Rep. Stephen Cohen (R-TN) [sic],” he\u2019s a Democrat from Tennessee, “Trump\u2019s audience and appeal are similar to those of the Ku Klux Klan\u2019s of the 1920s. The New York Times takes loud pride in its adamant opposition to hatred and racial, class, and gender bias \u2014 at least in theory.<\/p>\n

“That is why it both hired and understandably fired in the same day tech writer Quinn Norton, once it discovered that she had remained friends with notorious alt-right racist Andrew Auernheimer, despite claims of frequently disassociating herself from his repugnant views.” He goes on to describe other hires by the Times like “the racist Harvard Law School grad Sarah Jeong. She had not just befriended a racist,” and goes on and on. “For decades race and gender studies academics had argued that overtly expressed racism against whites was not real racism, but could be contextualized by prior white oppression.”<\/p>\n

Meaning, whites are fair game because they\u2019re the original racists, they\u2019re the original oppressors. So you can say about whites whatever you want. \u201cIn the age of furor against Trump, their theories now went off campus and were being adjudicated by a wider constituency\u2014and yet they did not seem to win agreement from the general public.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the hatred was not confined to the media and politicos, but rather also came from the very top of the Democratic Party. After the election, a defeated Hillary Clinton openly doubled-down on her earlier smear of Trump\u2019s base as deplorables and irredeemables, in recalibrating Barack Obama\u2019s old saw of the white working class as \u2018clingers\u2019 who had failed to appreciate his transformative candidacy.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cClinton told an audience in Mumbai, India: \u2018I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. You don\u2019t like black people getting rights, you don\u2019t like women getting jobs, you don\u2019t want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever that problem is, I am going to solve it.\u2019\u201d Trump said and these racists responded.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hanson goes on with examples like this for numerous pages and then asks, what does all this hate speech, as uttered by people on the left, signify? \u201cOne, there is terrible frustration among both the progressive Left (and the Never Trump Right),\u201d terrible frustration. \u201cSo far Trump has not been stopped. His foreign and domestic agendas often find success and resonate with about 40-45 percent of the American people. Much of the uncouthness, then, reflects their own frustrations and sense of alienation that millions of Americans have tuned them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, boy, is this bingo. I think what all this is is these people used to think of themselves as the great opinion leaders, opinion makers, and they\u2019re being ignored. They\u2019ve warned everybody for all these years about Trump. They\u2019ve told everybody that Trump\u2019s this kind of reprobate and that, and they can\u2019t get his numbers below 42%! And that\u2019s been their objective, to drive him down to the thirties or twenties and they can\u2019t get it done and they\u2019re frustrated and they\u2019re mad at you for not believing them.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re piling on. They\u2019re adding on. They\u2019re intensifying. And also they\u2019re cowards. \u201cMost of the slurs are voiced by elites, especially politicos, journalists, and celebrities. Perhaps their angst is driven by class\u2014as in how can their own superior logic and reasoning fail to resonate with 63 million voters?\u201d<\/p>\n

How come Trump can talk to these people and we can\u2019t? Why do they listen to him and not us? Answer: Well, obviously Trump voters are stupid, hopefully stupid, they\u2019re ignorant, they\u2019re ugly, they\u2019re filthy, they\u2019re dirty, they can\u2019t take care of their own personal hygiene, and now they\u2019re becoming like apes and Nazis! That\u2019s how arrogant this crowd is, plus cowardice.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThose who slander the deplorables and irredeemables assume that they can say almost anything and expect no pushback.\u201d And this is the real key. This is the exemption, this is the license to hate. They can say whatever they want, and there isn\u2019t going to be one negative reaction to these people. They are not going to be held accountable. There won\u2019t be any pushback. They get to say all this stuff with freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are learning that the entire idea of political correctness was never much about universal ideas of tolerance of the other, or insistence that language and protocols must not stigmatize individuals by lumping them into stereotyped and dehumanized collective groups. What we are witnessing, instead, is that it is fine to demonize millions, from their appearance to their purported hygiene and smell to affinities with feces and apes\u2014if it serves political or cultural agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, you can be as mean-spirited and extremist and filled with hate all you want, as long as your target is Trump voters and Republicans. You\u2019ll be hailed and applauded and invited back over and over again on cable news to continue the vitriol and the hatred. \u201cCultural progressivism is about raw power, not principle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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