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Democrats hate Trump more than they hate racism washex.am/2GPKhzM
.@BetoORourke, at this point a mere nuisance candidate in the presidential race, set a standard for the nation in demonstrating that partisan hackery can transcend any national tragedy.
No matter how many are dead, it’s never so many that he cannot stand atop their bodies and hurl down insults at the president he will not be running against in the 2020 general election.
But the real problem here is not O’Rourke’s desperate effort to turn this tragedy into a reboot of his flagging presidential candidacy.
The real problem is that O’Rourke is far from the only Democrat currently wishing and praying for a sitting president to do badly by his nation and to harm America as a whole.
This was manifest on Tuesday, when Democrats and liberals staged a full-fledged online freak-out over the objectively factually accurate New York Times headline about Trump’s speech.
The original headline merely noted Trump's message on Monday: that Americans should respond to what happened in El Paso by uniting against racism.
Yet, Democrats weren’t even happy when the Times’ editors, offering no real explanation, replaced the headline with one that subtly editorialized against Trump.
There are surely Democratic voters of good will in this country. But the loudest voices on today's Left and in today’s Democratic Party hate Trump far more than they hate racism, and they are showing it now.
The moment Trump tried to do something inarguably constructive, they stopped caring about racism’s harmful effects on the body politic and acted primarily from concern that this will hamper their ability to call Trump a racist.
They decided it’s a better use of their time and energy to frame half of their fellow citizens as Klansmen than it is to rally alongside them behind the common enemy of a violent racist ideology.
Like Bill Maher, who said that he's rooting for a recession so that Trump will lose, O’Rourke and many of Trump's political adversaries masquerading as journalists seem too obsessed with bringing down Trump's presidency to want what's good for their country in the meantime.
Shame on all of them, and on all of the others who want the nation to be upset and fragmented and divided by tragedy, just so that they can sooner get the political outcome they are hoping for.
