How culpable are left-leaning writers, editorialists, pundits and others that sold us the bunk that the disgruntled masses that followed Trump were upset about economic concerns and not because they were rank racists, unhinged anarchists, radical white nationalists and just plain woefully delusional, irrational individuals?
Trump may not have been elected if the editorialists had told the truth. It was just too rhetorically alluring to make them all poor, beat-up coal miners, laid-off automobile assembly line and steel mill workers, abandoned by the political class. Of course, some fit the bill but definitely not the majority. All one has to do is examine who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6th with the intent to kill and maim or simply destroy. Pretty hard to commiserate with them isn't it?
The writers with an agenda sold us a very destructive bill of goods. We got angry and afraid and then were told we needed to have empathy. The word empathy was thrown around like Mardi Gras beads. We thought, "Ok, I don't want to be perceived as a bad person, so, yeah, ok, I feel sorry for Trump supporters." The red-capped crazies then proceeded to attempt to destroy the country.
Funny, some of the left-leaning editorialists, who probably helped give us Trump, have simply doubled down on their dishonest rhetoric, but now they talk about tangential issues that they portray as running parallel with their previous rhetorical baloney.
The issues they wrapped around the militant fools are real. Unfortunately, they picked the wrong vehicles with which to tell their stories. What's embarrassing is that it appears the fruit was just hanging too low, too irresistible.
It may be that one needs to live in Texas to fully understand the issue. Or maybe Georgia, or Arizona or Michigan or....
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