{"id":78170,"date":"2015-10-30T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78170"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:15:09","slug":"washington-finally-united-in-hatred-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78170","title":{"rendered":"Washington finally united \u2014 in hatred for Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Hurt writes July 7, 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Finally! A great, unifying figure emerges in American politics to bring the endlessly bickering factions here in Washington back together again.<\/p>\n

Not since 9\/11 has everyone in Washington rallied in such unison as they do now \u2014 vehemently opposed to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. But unlike 9\/11, the sophisticates and kleptocrats in both parties of Washington find themselves wildly out of step with actual American voters.<\/p>\n

People in both parties and even those resolutely unaffiliated here in Washington twitch and tremble at the mere mention of the Trump name. Refer to him as \u201cPresident Trump\u201d or repeatedly reference \u201cthe Trump administration,\u201d and these people go into a smoldering tailspin.<\/p>\n

Eyes bug out of heads. Professional Republicans denounce him. Conservative commentators mock him and insist he is no part of the Grand Old Party. Professional Democrats abhor him and smear him as a racist boob. Liberal commentators predict that he will destroy the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Truth is, the fact that people here in Washington fear and loathe Mr. Trump so much is final proof that these people here in Washington fear and loathe you; the great unwashed voters of America.<\/p>\n

People here in Washington despise voters and think you are stupid and not to be taken seriously. You are rude and vulgar and uneducated.<\/p>\n

Take Mr. Trump\u2019s comments about the illegals streaming across the border from Mexico who commit these heinous crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Mexico sends its people, they\u2019re not sending their best,\u201d he said in announcing his campaign. \u201cThey\u2019re sending people that have lots of problems, and they\u2019re bringing those problems with us. They\u2019re bringing drugs. They\u2019re bringing crime. They\u2019re rapists.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was not a polite thing to say. But it is absolutely, incontrovertibly true. Just ask the grieving family of Kathryn Steinle out in California. And polls show that American voters in both parties agree with Mr. Trump and desperately want the crisis to be fixed.<\/p>\n

But in this ever-lying world of Washington politics, it is wrong to speak the truth if it is shocking or unpleasant. Which, of course, is how this country has gotten into the terrible fix we are in today.<\/p>\n

So Mr. Trump is denounced from every corner, branded as a racist and excommunicated by proper politicos of every stripe.<\/p>\n

Even the \u201cseverely conservative\u201d Republican Mitt Romney got into the game, saying: \u201cI think he made a severe error in saying what he did about Mexican-Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whoaaaaah, Nelly! Who said anything about legal \u201cMexican-Americans?\u201d Nobody is talking about people of Mexican extraction who are living and working legally in America. This is about illegal Mexicans illegally crossing the border and illegally committing atrocious crimes, in many cases even after they have been deported \u2014 repeatedly! It is about a broken border and a broken immigration system.<\/p>\n

Americans are not anti-Hispanic or anti-Mexican. They are simply anti-insanity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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