Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The Unequal Rules of the Anti-Trump Blame Game

In a memorable scene from the 1986 blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their money.  Warned that the intruder is brandishing a knife, the cool-as-a-cucumber Dundee says, in his broad Australian accent, "That's nawt a nyfe!"  Then, whipping out his own larger, sharper one, he states, "That's a nyfe!"
His quip got a big laugh from the audience – and the movie thug got the message.  But when President Trump used a similar retort in response to brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un – substituting nuclear "buttons" for knives – his hostile liberal audience was anything but amused.
The liberals never are, of course.  Donald Trump has become more than a distraction to Democrats.  He has become an obsession – and an object of unswerving ridicule and hate.
Not that the presence of deep-seated rancor in American politics is anything new.  For all the historic greatness of Abraham Lincoln, myriads of Americans, including Northern liberal Republicans, cheered at the news of his assassination.  But the embodiment of the liberal hatred for Trump seems beyond anything our divided country has hitherto experienced.
What began as ridicule – e.g.. Comedian Seth Meyers's quip "I didn't know Donald Trump was running as a Republican; I thought he was running as a joke" – eventually flared into "fire and fury" – not just because of the disappointing 2016 election results, but because they came as such an utter surprise.  In the church of political opinion, the future of the Democratic Party had been left ignominiously standing at the altar.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/the_unequal_rules_of_the_antitrump_blame_game.html#ixzz54M7f3pk8 

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