Let me get this straight. To anyone paying attention, it is obvious that Trump never intended to the President of all Americans. He formally started his re-election campaign shortly after being sworn in, and he has been holding rallies with his followers ever since. At these rallies the networks and media have repeatedly broadcast to the nation and world exactly what Trump thinks of Democrats. Using all the worst words. Straight from his mouth.
Trump hates Democrats. Viscerally. That much is obvious to everyone, or at least it should be, especially to people who are paid millions of dollars for their knowledge and insights on politics, like Joe Scarborough and others.
Scarborough knows what Trump says and how he feels about Democrats, because Trump tells the world almost every day. According to Trump:
Democrats are evil
Cockroaches
Scum
Disgusting
Liars
Enemies of the people
Very bad people
Democrats hate (America) (Our country) (Our freedoms)(Religion) (Us) (People like you) (our values) (patriots) and so on.
Trump declares his hatred of Democrats to crowds of thousands of supporters who cheer his expressions of hatred of Democrats. Because they are Democrats. Our American President travels this nation, specifically to share his hatred of Democrats with his admirers, and in pursuit of spreading that hate.
We all feel it. We all know how poisonous it is, how Third Reich it can become, on the fringes at first. So if we find ourselves in a position to communicate to our President exactly what we think and feel of his denigration of millions of us as people, is a mere booing is not acceptable? Is it not the least we can do?
Disrespectful of the President? Scarborough and his ilk think so. Scarborough believes we should suppress how we feel so that Trump will never be made to feel uncomfortable for the rampant damage he is doing to the social fabric of our nation?
Silence is complicity.
Booing is the probably the kindest expression of the many options.
Trump should be booed. It really is the least we should do.
Political differences do not make those who disagree with us sub-human, as Trump seeks to do. But Trump is not alone, as the demonizing of Democrats has been a billion-dollar industry for Republicans and Conservatives for more than a generation. How Trump feels about Democrats is how millions of his followers feel about Democrats. For those millions who feel like Trump does, though, our merely not sharing their political viewpoint does make us, in their eyes and hearts, at least one of those slurs Trump uses.
Respect is not deserved, it is earned, or it is lost. Trump has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to earn respect. The list of things Trump has done and said to lose our respect, though, is massive.
For a brief moment, at a baseball game, Trump heard from the people he has been smearing for years. He heard from good people, people he hates. That was something to be celebrated and long overdue.
That was the story that even a douche like Scarborough should have seen.