Saturday, October 21, 2017

Unwarranted Hysteria Over George W. Bush's Speech

I hate to say it, but all the Trump apologists who were bashing George W. for allegedly attacking Trumpism have just taken a page out of the leftist playbook. Not in terms of being effective Alinskyites, but in terms of jumping the gun and embarrassing themselves and their leader. You know how insecure leftists get when you read some awful quote and it sounds like it could have been Obama and Hillary but it turns out to be someone else together? Or, you make a general statement condemning corruption or some such and they immediately jump in assuming that you are talking about O.?

And we all laugh and laugh and laugh because such assumptions are generally a sign of the guilty conscience? Well, in this instance, that's exactly what happened. The White House correctly issued a statement that no one there took Bush to be referring to Trump (and in fact, he spent a great deal of his speech bashing the left, and the racist intersectionalists)... but Trump's supporters immediately assumed it was about him.

Why exactly would anyone make comments that Bush was bashing Trump, when the context was clearly about the left unless deep inside you think that if he HAD meant Trump, he may have had a point>? Why are Trump's OWN die-hard supporters giving ammunition to the left? To be sure, Bush is no great example of conservatism. Neither is Trump himself. But what kills me is when allegedly super-conservative elements of the party begin to attack everyone around them as not conservative enough in an attempt to defend their party leader who is not conservative at all, and as a result, make themselves look foolish. Stop it already. You want party unity? Begin with yourself.

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