{"id":5514,"date":"2017-05-17T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/trump-brings-out-the-lefts-true-colors\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:24:44","slug":"trump-brings-out-the-lefts-true-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/trump-brings-out-the-lefts-true-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brings Out the Left’s True Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can add this to the list of Trump's accomplishments: he has provoked the Left to expose themselves in all their ugliness.  Wittingly?  Some say yes: he is playing them like a fiddle.  I don't know whether his provocations are witting or unwitting. The fact remains<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

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So far all the political violence associated with the election of Trump, from Inauguration to the latest campus rioting, has been on the Left. No pro-Trump crowds don masks, break windows or shut down traffic. The crudity in contemporary politics\u2014from the constant sick jokes referring to First Family incest, smears against the First Lady, low attacks on the Trump children, boycotts of the Inauguration, talk and dreams of killing the president\u2014is on the liberal\/progressive side. The entertainment industry\u2019s obscenity and coarseness have been picked up by mainstream Democratic officials, who now routinely resort to profanities like s\u2013t and f\u2013k to attack the president. Almost every ethical code\u2014television journalists do not report on air private conservations<\/a> with their guests during breaks, opposition congressional representatives do attend the Inauguration<\/a>, Senators do not use obscenities<\/a>\u2014have been abandoned in efforts to delegitimize Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Hillary Clinton assumed the mantle of the \u201cResistance,\u201d she was deliberately using a metaphor to convey the idea that she is analogous to a French patriot under occupation and Trump is a veritable foreign Nazi belligerent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The point about Hillary is important. Here we have a prominent politician engaging in what is arguably seditious libel if not outright sedition.<\/span><\/p>\n

You leftards are really looking good! Keep it up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can add this to the list of Trump's accomplishments: he has provoked the Left to expose themselves in all their ugliness.  Wittingly?  Some say yes: he is playing them like a fiddle.  I don't know whether his provocations are witting or unwitting. The fact remains:  So far all the political violence associated with the … Continue reading “Trump Brings Out the Left’s True Colors”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}