The
press strains to show “balance.” They do not differentiate between a
conventional candidate with experience and knowledge and a candidate who lacks
experience, is woefully uninformed, and uses his speaking skills to appeal to
the mob’s basest instincts.
Many
people, especially Bernie supporters, dislike Clinton’s policies, but she is
not a menace and a threat to the future of the nation and the world. Trump is.
He makes outrageous statements every day, which the press no longer finds
novel.
She
dares to say that “half” his supporters are “Deplorables,” and the press blows
it up into a media firestorm. But was she right? David Duke tweeted last night,
“We are the Deplorables.”
Do
you want to see the faces of the Deplorables? Read and watch
this article that appeared in the New
York Times recently. The NY Times has published other articles about the
neo-Nazism, white nationalism, and race hatred that Trump’s rallies bring out.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Need more proof? In Charlestown, Donald Trump's most prominent supporter is town curmudgeon Jim Mageau. See Mageau's ProJo letter to the Editor rant HERE.
CNN
and MSNBC have reported on Trump’s avid interest in and support for the Birther
movement. He claimed repeatedly that he needed to see President Obama’s birth
certificate.
He
claimed he sent a team of investigators to Hawaii and what they were finding
was “unbelievable.” True, it was unbelievable. They found nothing.
Now
Trump surrogates like Rudy Guiliani and his campaign manager now say that Trump
acknowledges that the President was born in America, but Trump has never said
it.
He
thus manages to signal the paranoid right that he is on their side without
saying anything more. He owes the President an apology but it will never
happen.
Thanks
to the media’s lust for trivia, scandal, headlines, and false equivalence, this
unhinged conspiracy theorist could be elected president. Those who facilitate
the ascendancy of this dangerous know-nothing are the Deplorables.
I
exempt the Huffington Post from this generalization because it states at the
end of every article about Trump:
“Editor’s note:
Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant
xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all
Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”