The media seems dead set on being complicit in normalizing Donald Trump’s betrayal, racism, xenophobia, and ignorance of foreign and domestic policy. Instead of an honest analysis of what Donald Trump says, they play both sides of the game and find like-minded minorities to back up their misguided efforts to make the abnormal normal. When Donald Trump stood before a crowd and said because of the lighting, he could only see “the black ones,” African American congressman Byron Donalds was on TV with Kristen Welker Sunday to say he agreed. When Donald Trump says black people identify with him because of his mugshot, black conservatives like Dr. Ben Carson nod and applaud him dutifully. “These lights are so bright in my eyes that — I can't see too many people out there,” said Trump. “But I can only see the black ones. I can't see any white ones. You see.” His comments were greeted with raucous laughter and uncomfortable applause from the Black Conservative Federation.
The Sunday talking heads made mention of the blatant racism in his statements—past and present, and turned to visibly angry black pundits to vent before the familiar we have to leave it there—end of conversations. In 2016, the media got so used to letting Donald Trump frame his opposition with nicknames and insults that they treated the campaign like a comedy club roast. The TV ratings became the enemy of fundamental analysis. The current iteration of that is the term ‘Never Trumpers.’
Donald Trump has coaxed the media into turning the term Never Trumper into an opposition ad hominem attack on him, not worthy of further examination. Countless numbers of times, political talk hosts start questioning Republicans—who oppose Trump—with the phrase as a Never Trumper…. That immediately brands any facts they bring to the table as just meaningless political rhetoric. So, when Nikki Haley states that Donald Trump has proven to be a chaotic loser, it is immediately dismissed, although true.
Understandably, Mr. Trump's rivals were considered just playing politics. When the opposition moved to people who worked intimately with him, the press chose to label them as Never Trumpers as well. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie worked so closely with Mr. Trump in the 2016 campaign he, according to Christie, caught COVID-19 from the former President and nearly died. Yet the man who has known Donald Trump for over 20 years and at one point called him friend says Trump is “a liar,” “a coward,” “a con artist,” “a spoiled baby,” and “a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog.” When View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked steps away from the former president, daily, when asked if Trump should be re-elected, said, “He is wholly unfit to be in office.”
The so-called Never Trumpers number among them the former president of the RNC, Michael Steele, GOP strategist Ric Wilson, former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), longtime neoconservative writer Bill Kristol, and former congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL). None of the aforementioned people are tree-huggers or snowflakes. Although one may be vehemently opposed to their political positions, none can be accused of being un-American. The next time someone is dismissed as having Trump derangement syndrome or being a Never Trumper, ask yourself: Why?
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