If the campaign "can be downright depressing" as Hillary Clinton put
it at a "rally" at Temple University attended by less than 200 people,
reflect, for a minute, upon the emotions stirred by the thought of
Hillary Clinton as president.
The vision of the future offered by Mrs. Clinton is more like one of the more depressing chapters in Ayn Rand's classic novel Atlas Shrugged than "Morning in America."
In
Mrs. Clinton's vision, Americans can't be trusted to make their own
health care decisions, lawful gun owners are "despicable" and those who
believe in American exceptionalism and the unique heritage of Western
culture must be "shamed" into thinking otherwise.
But if you stand
up to this "shaming" or simply differ with Mrs. Clinton and support the
Republican candidate, then you support a candidate "who incites hatred
and violence like we've never seen before in any campaign ... hate
speech being normalized. The dog whistles are out in the open."
This
strange campaign against the American people began with Clinton's
infamous "basket of deplorables" speeches, in which she said that she
put Donald Trump's supporters into two "baskets" and that half of them
were in what she called "the basket of deplorables" including, as she
put it, "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you
name it." She also said that Trump supporters were "irredeemable."
So if you think, for example, that our borders should be effectively enforced, you can be called a racist and shunned.
If
you think there are legitimate differences between men and women that
should be recognized in law, you are sexist and can be shunned.
If
you believe in the biblical definition of marriage, then you are
homophobic and your views are unworthy of airing in the public square.
If you think immigration to America should be limited to only those
who adhere to constitutional government and will contribute to America's
cultural and economic advancement, then you are a xenophobe and your
views can be dismissed.
And most assuredly, if you wisely
recognize that Islam is incompatible with constitutional government and
is an existential threat to American society and cultural ideals, then
you are an Islamophobe and unworthy of having your views considered.
All
of these concerns are self-evidently legitimate to millions of
Americans, but telling the truth about them is simply not allowed in the
eyes of the establishment's opinion-makers.
Larry O'Connor at Hot
Air makes the point that Democrats, and a complicit media,
used much the same tactic against Republicans and Mitt Romney back in
2012.
Back then, he writes, "Obama and Clinton hammered Romney
about his condemnation [of the response to the Benghazi attack] and the
media played along. They attacked Romney mercilessly for getting out in
front of the story and using the riots to make a political point." And
it wasn't just Benghazi, any criticism of the Obama-Clinton failures in
the Middle East, Obama's open borders immigration policies, his
"refugee" policies and his facilitation of the Islamic civilization
jihad against America was racist and "hate speech."
The same is
true now, O'Connor argues. "But here's the crux of this issue, which
seems lost on the media and the Democrats trying to make the case that
Trump 'shoots first and aims later,'" he writes. "He was right!"
What's
depressing is not Hillary Clinton's lackluster campaign, that is mostly
concerned with campaigning against her fellow Americans and avoiding
answering for her lifetime of lies. What's depressing is that Donald
Trump and his supporters are correct about the threats facing our
country, and the establishment media is so obsessed with defeating Trump
that they attack him or claim he is jumping to conclusions when he is
right.
Source: Charisma
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