The Left’s Hatred of Trump
I went searching for why Trump is so absolutely hated by our
American left. Trying to get away from
the usual saws – “he beat Hillary” he’s a racist, he’s disgusting tweeting troll”,
etc., it seems that the main reason for hating this interloper from New York is
his pragmatic disregard of the niceties of politics and government in favor of
“what works”. Sometimes this means
offending or stepping on the toes of one of the political identities chosen by
the left for special favors. Sometimes
it means voicing something, just like Joe Six Pack would, that is offensive to
elitist ears. In foreign affairs, trump
doesn’t bow to our friends and foes. He
tells our NATO allies to “pay up”. That
does not endear him to Merkel or Macron or Trudeau.
He sometimes needlessly belittles and offends highly
regarded liberal icons that he should not - for example, John McCain (RIP),
whose vote in the senate failed to end Obamacare, the Khans, a Muslim gold star
family, and a handicapped reporter. Of
course all of these incidents were seized upon with fury by the biased
anti-Trump leftist media and blown all out of proportion.
It is difficult to be entirely fair when it comes to
President Trump. Few would enjoy working
for him, and having him as a boss. On
the other hand, we have to admit that what he is doing is working a lot better
for the country than what his predecessors were doing, so these backers can say:
“ We did not elect him to be a nice guy.
We elected him to do the right job.”
To republicans, conservatives and libertarians, Trump has
slowed the cultural and political trend toward secular identity politics and
political correctness. He has retrieved
our sense of American exceptionalism that was foundering only in our outback
and made it part of more mainstream Americana.
The point is that under Trump, not only are the voices of the Acela and
coastal and urban elitists heard, as was increasingly so under Obama and his
ilk. Also heard are the myriad,
multi-ethnic and multi-racial and diversely educated voices of middle and “flyover”
America.
This Wall Street Journal article is a bit dated, but it hits
many main points.
One quote from the article:
“You might dislike the whole package. I wouldn’t choose him
as a friend, nor would he choose me. But what I see on the left is often plain,
unconditional hatred of which the hater—God forgive him—is proud. It’s
discouraging, even disgusting. And it does mean, I believe, that the
Trump-hater truly does hate the average American—male or female, black or
white. Often he hates America, too.”
The following links reflect a range of primarily anti-Trump
rhetoric. The “Salon” article is
particularly scathing and negative. The “Thought
Catalog” links enumerate the same points with pros and cons for each
point. The Rasmussen article is
reasonably objective.
Ray Gruszecki
December 15, 2019
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