We are hearing a lot about “un-civil” discourse in our society. The images of Maxine Waters calling for the harassment of Trump administration officials coupled with the expulsion of two Administration officials from restaurants has caused a great amount of conversation.
And, inevitably, the left has blamed Donald J. Trump.
But how did we get here? How did we get a volatile, aggressive bomb-thrower like Trump to win the last election? The answer is simple…..
We, as Conservatives, decided to “fight fire with fire” and put our own bomb-thrower into the arena. For years, the liberal left has smeared the pinata-like nominees for higher office presented by the Republican Party. For years we have heard Republican nominees characterized as “racists”, “bigots” and “misogynists”. We have heard baseless accusations of Republicans wanting to kill women, hang blacks from trees and cause children to starve in the streets. Those accusations did not come from pundits or talking heads on cable television…they came from actual elected representatives of the Democratic Party. And after eight intense years of race-baiting from the Obama-ites, the conservative right was ready to hitch their wagon to someone who would fight back and take no prisoners. The person we looked for would respond to a shovel full of dirt by backing up the truck and dumping a load of filth on the other side.
Frankly, nobody else on the Republican side would have been able to beat Hillary Clinton. The rest of the “politicians” would have followed the same path of denying the claims and responding in highly political language. We were looking for the “street fighter” who would go toe-to-toe with the bomb-throwers.
In Donald Trump, we found our man…and the left abhors being the recipient of the slurs, snarky accusations and belittling comments foisted on them by a person who never backs down.
Nice to be on the other side for once!