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Ours is an age of perversion, so why not obstinately defend Trump from liberal accusations of inciting violence? The gunman who went on a killing spree in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday was apparently not a Trump voter.
He had been an outspoken critic of the president in the corners of the Internet he frequented. Far from inciting violence against Jews, Trump has welcomed a Jewish son-in-law into his own family, along with the conversion to Judaism of a beloved daughter.
As president, he has been nothing if not unstinting in his support for the Jewish State. Ah, but Trump wants to restrict immigration, and we know that anyone who does that has to be an anti-Semite too, right?
Except that the architect of much of Trump’s immigration policy is a Jewish American, Stephen Miller.
No one who takes cues from Trump or the Trump administration would go on a shooting spree in a synagogue. But if the rap can’t be pinned on Trump directly, perhaps the entire deplorable right can be indicted.
Lots of Republicans are running ads criticising George Soros, after all. And Soros is Jewish. Therefore Republicans are indeed anti-Semitic.
No. Anti-Semites hate George Soros because he’s a Jew. But most right-wing people dislike Soros and oppose his influence on the country, and the world, because he’s a left-winger. Their criticisms target him for his ideological activism, not his religious identity.
And if the terms in which Soros is criticised are frequently overblown, are they any more so than the terms in which the left hypes the menace of Charles Koch or Sheldon Adelson or Rebekah Mercer?
Or for that matter, the menace of Donald Trump, who is either an actual fascist or an enabler of fascism — if you believe what liberals who hate him tell you.
Robert Bowers was not a normal man interested in politics but incited by Donald Trump or the Republican Party’s rhetoric; he was a murderous man with anti-Semitic views antithetical to Trump’s party and his very family.
Cesar Sayoc was not an otherwise upstanding Republican driven to mail bombs to prominent liberals by President Trump’s words — he was a freak with a rap sheet as long as his arm, including a previous bomb threat that had nothing to do with politics.
The idea that Sayoc would not have been a threat to anyone if Trump had not inflamed him with trash talk about CNN or the Democrats is nonsense. He would have been no less of a violent criminal if Hillary Clinton or Mohandas Gandhi had been president.
Liberals know this, but they do not care: Sayoc and Bowers are clubs with which to beat Trump and Republicans. If Trump were tearful and begging for absolution from the people who hate everything he stands for in politics, they would be no more merciful in morally cudgeling him.
No Republican president has ever been spared liberals’ wrath because he tried to appease them.
If Trump denounced his own voters as deplorables, as a legion of Sayocs and Bowerses, the liberals who attack him now for his defiance would attack him then for having ever attracted such people...
— and the only remedy, then as now, would be a complete Democratic victory this November and in 2020. Liberals don’t think conservatives or Republicans should be polite. They think they should lose.
But that’s nothing to cry about; that’s roughhouse politics. The only pity is that this predictable partisan acrimony takes attention away from the lives lost in Pittsburgh.
