Conservatives love to think of themselves as the poster children for all that is right (read: straight, white and male) in the world. They successfully parlayed the ever-present fear of the other into a Trump victory in 2016 and they’ve been acting as if they’ve finally established Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich. The stories of their inhumanity are endless and it would be difficult to pick out which might be the worst of the worst for 2018.
Until today.
Kurt Schichtler is a two-bit rabble rousing “columnist” at Townhall and he’s been working at establishing himself as a modern day Joseph Goebbels. His usual banal fare is relegated to telling Trump supporters that they’re the “normal” people trying to save America from the liberals who are working to bring on a New World Order.
But in a burst of end-of-the-year “how can I separate myself from the likes of Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest of the degenerates,” Schlitchter decided to put himself in a class by himself by literally making fun of a mother’s grief at losing a child. Of course, because he’s not particularly creative, he chose to mimic his soulless idol, Melania Trump, with a tweet saying only, “I don’t care.”
The Huffington story provides the background, but briefly, an American father, Ali Hassan, brought his son Abdullah Hassan from Yemen to the United States for emergency medical treatment. The boy’s mother — a Yemeni citizen — was barred from coming to the US to be with her son thanks to Trump’s “America First” inhumane attempts to seal our borders. She was finally granted a visa and was able to see her son just two days before he died. Again — Schlichter’s response — I don't care. Tragedy is part of the human condition, but it takes a special kind of bastard to literally mock a mother’s grief at losing a child, hence my nomination of this POS as the Worst Person of 2018.
The irony is that Schlichter is a piss poor excuse for a human being who fancies that he’s going to become wealthy and famous as a hanger-on among the wretched parasites that would other be relegated to the dung heap of journalism but for Trump’s success — as fleeting as it will likely be. Shining a light on this kind of scum is probably providing him with the only thing for which he lives — attention — but the flip side is that too many Americans still refuse to acknowledge the depths to which Trump and his minions would take this country.
Accordingly, I hope he gets the attention — and karmic justice — he richly deserves.