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After the Trump rally was cancelled in Chicago a few weeks ago, Tiffany
Gabbay reported at Truth Revolt:
. . . The greater issue here is
the psychosis currently gripping media, celebrity, and even fellow
conservatives when it comes to the topic of Donald Trump.
This is dangerous ground on
which to tread and reminds me of the knee-jerk reactions leftists had in crying
"Racist!" anytime a person opposed Barack Obama on the basis of
substance. So now Trump can be smeared as Hitler in much the same way, and
anyone who supports him can be shamed as a person who "would have
helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust."
And this is part of what led to
the riotous protests at the Trump rally in Chicago.
Does Donald Trump bear
responsibility for the way he carries himself? Yes. But the media, along with
the #NeverTrump crowd, conveniently leave out context and incite even
more animus than was there to begin with.
During several Trump
rallies, aggressive -- not peaceful -- protesters have
showed up to heckle Trump, his supporters, and attempted to disrupt
these gatherings. Trump was reacting not to peaceful protesters, but to
rabble rousers. Were some of the things he said in response to these
agitators presidential? Perhaps not. But context in reporting and
refraining from comparing Trump to Hitler on every news broadcast and print
article would have been essential to quelling the rising tensions.
The truth is that those who
protested Trump in Chicago are the same kind of people who needed no
provocation at all to riot in Ferguson and in Baltimore and just about
every other time and place in which they've tried to shut down free speech with
aggression and militancy. This is the real fascism on display, not Trump.
Conservatives, including other
GOP candidates, who dislike Trump and wish to distance themselves from his
rhetoric should think twice before embarking on the slippery slope of blaming
Trump for the thuggery that occurred in Chicago on Friday. They should also
look to their role in fanning the flames with every Trump-Hitler reference they
make. This is not a road we want to go down. And if we do, there might not be a
way of turning back.
Protesters
celebrate chanting "We stopped Trump."
These
protesters are not protesting just Trump, they are protesting free speech. And
some of them, who knows how many, are bought and paid for. Here is one of the ads in Craig’s List, posted on March 8 showing
the hiring of the rent-a-mob protesters. Other reports on rent-a-mobs are here and here.
Notice
that one of the states listed at the end of the ad is Ohio. Hmm. Mid-July.
Cleveland. Republican National Convention.
Fasten
your safety belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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