If you listen to the news, you will hear that White Nationalism is on the rise. White extremists are killing minorities and others around the world with increasing frequency. In the USA, the normalization of white nationalism as an ideology by President Trump has encouraged a major spurt in extremist violence. It's pretty horrible. The problem, though, is that it is not true. Indeed, it is not remotely close to being true.
Let's start with the big rise in extremist violence. The Wall Street Journal, citing the US Extremist Crime Database, reports that the frequency of violent hate crime in the United States has been about the same for 50 years. That's a pretty telling bit of statistics. The government keeps track of all incidents labeled extremist crime and it's been steady for the last half century. There is no spurt of evil in the last few years. It's just the same as it has always been. Now there's no question that there have been some rather horrible incidents, but there have always been occasional outbursts of such insanity. It seems to part of the human condition. So, no rise in extremist violence in the USA.
Around the world, there has been a wave of extremist violence over the last twenty years, but that is the result of radical Islamic terrorism. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in Syria alone. That's hardly white nationalism.
And what about President Trump's normalization of white nationalism? That really arises from two statements the President made. In one, Trump said he was a nationalist. He is, as are the majority of all Americans of all races. All that means is that Trump and all the others support our nation, the United States, and that we want the country to grow and succeed. Hey, rooting for the US Olympic Team is nationalism. Trump says he's president of the USA, not of the world. His job is to put America first. White nationalism is something else. It places the so called "white nation" ahead of other races. It is racism, pure and simple. It is not, however, what Trump supports, and that is clear.
The second statement from Trump that gets used to claim he is a white nationalist is his comments about the good people on both sides at Charlottesville. But here too, the accusers get their story wrong. Charlottesville was a rally about whether or not to remove certain statues of civil war leaders in that Virginia city. A group of white nationalists did show up to support retaining the statues of Confederate generals, etc. They were met by opposition protesters who included members of Antifa, the violent leftwing group. The focus of the event was place totally on that confrontation and on the crazy attack by one of the violent white nationalists on a young woman who he ran down with his car. There was more to Charlottesville than just the confrontation and the attack. There was the dispute about the statues. When Trump said there were good people on both sides, he was talking about the people who came to debate whether or not to remove the statues. He made clear he wasn't talking about the white nationalist crazies. He made clear he wasn't talking about the Antifa thugs. But it didn't matter to the media. They had a way to attack Trump and they used it over and over and over. Trump supported the white nationalists, or so we were told for months. But it isn't true.
So the reality is that there is no increase in white nationalist violence and the President doesn't condone it. Why then are we hearing about it more and more these days? The answer, of course, is that 2020 is coming. The Democrats need a new way to bash Republicans. Prior to 2008, the Democrats switched history around to make the GOP the party of racism. Remember, the Republican party was founded to fight against slavery which was supported by the Democrats. When Jim Crow laws were passed in the South during Reconstruction, these laws were passed by Democrats, not Republicans. When the Army was segregated during World War I, that was done by Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat. Wilson was also a big supporter of the KKK. The first modern civil rights laws and the start of the push for desegregation came under Eisenhower, a Republican. In the 1960's when the main civil rights laws were passed, the opposition consisted almost completely of Democrats. Nearly every Republican and about a half of the Democrats united to pass this legislation. After that, however, this history was ignored. Democrats told people for decades that they were the party of civil rights and the GOP supported racism. That ploy worked until the election of Barack Obama. Once Obama was in office, the Dems went crazy with the charge. No matter what Republicans did or said, if they opposed Obama on anything, it was labeled racist. Everything was racist, so it dawned on Americans that the term meant nothing anymore.
The Dems did the same thing with sexism. Remember Mitt Romney and the GOP's War on Women from the 2012 campaign. The charge was a joke, but that didn't matter. The Democrats and the media labeled the GOP anti-woman and it swung a batch of votes. That fell apart quickly, however.
In 2016, the Clinton charge that Republicans were "deplorables" was a reference back to all these things and more. According to Clinton, the GOP was the party of racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and you name it. For once, the charges backfired. Hillary managed to so incense average Republicans with her false charges that they turned out in droves to vote against her.
But now the Democrats need an attack line for 2020. The attack of choice is now "white nationalism". Trump is a Nazi, or so we get told. All Republicans are white nationalists, or so we get told. It's not true, but they say it over and over again anyway.
The good thing is that unlike in prior years, there finally is a way for the truth to get out there. The mainstream media cannot hide the actual reality from the voters. President Trump can get his message out no matter how hard the mainstream media tries to suppress it.
We still hear Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or the anti-Semite Ilhan Omar telling America that the GOP and the President are white supremacists. Just the other day, AOC called Steven Miller a white supremacist. The problem, of course, is that presidential adviser Miller is Jewish. That just does not compute. Then Candace Owens testified before Congress. Slimy Democrat congressman Ted Lieu played a tape in Owens supposedly praised Adolph Hitler and, thereby, white supremacy. Owens, who is black and who has been the victim of a hate crime herself, didn't take it lying down. She responded to Lieu with the actual facts of what she had said and Owens exposed Lieu for the slime that he is.
The reality is that if the Democrats try to use the white supremacy attack against the GOP, it is unlikely to succeed this time. Instead, it is more likely to expose the Dems for the dishonest people they are. Even worse for the Dems, if they rely on attacks like white supremacy and those attacks are exposed as vapid and false, they will have nothing left to fall back upon.
Let's start with the big rise in extremist violence. The Wall Street Journal, citing the US Extremist Crime Database, reports that the frequency of violent hate crime in the United States has been about the same for 50 years. That's a pretty telling bit of statistics. The government keeps track of all incidents labeled extremist crime and it's been steady for the last half century. There is no spurt of evil in the last few years. It's just the same as it has always been. Now there's no question that there have been some rather horrible incidents, but there have always been occasional outbursts of such insanity. It seems to part of the human condition. So, no rise in extremist violence in the USA.
Around the world, there has been a wave of extremist violence over the last twenty years, but that is the result of radical Islamic terrorism. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in Syria alone. That's hardly white nationalism.
And what about President Trump's normalization of white nationalism? That really arises from two statements the President made. In one, Trump said he was a nationalist. He is, as are the majority of all Americans of all races. All that means is that Trump and all the others support our nation, the United States, and that we want the country to grow and succeed. Hey, rooting for the US Olympic Team is nationalism. Trump says he's president of the USA, not of the world. His job is to put America first. White nationalism is something else. It places the so called "white nation" ahead of other races. It is racism, pure and simple. It is not, however, what Trump supports, and that is clear.
The second statement from Trump that gets used to claim he is a white nationalist is his comments about the good people on both sides at Charlottesville. But here too, the accusers get their story wrong. Charlottesville was a rally about whether or not to remove certain statues of civil war leaders in that Virginia city. A group of white nationalists did show up to support retaining the statues of Confederate generals, etc. They were met by opposition protesters who included members of Antifa, the violent leftwing group. The focus of the event was place totally on that confrontation and on the crazy attack by one of the violent white nationalists on a young woman who he ran down with his car. There was more to Charlottesville than just the confrontation and the attack. There was the dispute about the statues. When Trump said there were good people on both sides, he was talking about the people who came to debate whether or not to remove the statues. He made clear he wasn't talking about the white nationalist crazies. He made clear he wasn't talking about the Antifa thugs. But it didn't matter to the media. They had a way to attack Trump and they used it over and over and over. Trump supported the white nationalists, or so we were told for months. But it isn't true.
So the reality is that there is no increase in white nationalist violence and the President doesn't condone it. Why then are we hearing about it more and more these days? The answer, of course, is that 2020 is coming. The Democrats need a new way to bash Republicans. Prior to 2008, the Democrats switched history around to make the GOP the party of racism. Remember, the Republican party was founded to fight against slavery which was supported by the Democrats. When Jim Crow laws were passed in the South during Reconstruction, these laws were passed by Democrats, not Republicans. When the Army was segregated during World War I, that was done by Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat. Wilson was also a big supporter of the KKK. The first modern civil rights laws and the start of the push for desegregation came under Eisenhower, a Republican. In the 1960's when the main civil rights laws were passed, the opposition consisted almost completely of Democrats. Nearly every Republican and about a half of the Democrats united to pass this legislation. After that, however, this history was ignored. Democrats told people for decades that they were the party of civil rights and the GOP supported racism. That ploy worked until the election of Barack Obama. Once Obama was in office, the Dems went crazy with the charge. No matter what Republicans did or said, if they opposed Obama on anything, it was labeled racist. Everything was racist, so it dawned on Americans that the term meant nothing anymore.
The Dems did the same thing with sexism. Remember Mitt Romney and the GOP's War on Women from the 2012 campaign. The charge was a joke, but that didn't matter. The Democrats and the media labeled the GOP anti-woman and it swung a batch of votes. That fell apart quickly, however.
In 2016, the Clinton charge that Republicans were "deplorables" was a reference back to all these things and more. According to Clinton, the GOP was the party of racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and you name it. For once, the charges backfired. Hillary managed to so incense average Republicans with her false charges that they turned out in droves to vote against her.
But now the Democrats need an attack line for 2020. The attack of choice is now "white nationalism". Trump is a Nazi, or so we get told. All Republicans are white nationalists, or so we get told. It's not true, but they say it over and over again anyway.
The good thing is that unlike in prior years, there finally is a way for the truth to get out there. The mainstream media cannot hide the actual reality from the voters. President Trump can get his message out no matter how hard the mainstream media tries to suppress it.
We still hear Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or the anti-Semite Ilhan Omar telling America that the GOP and the President are white supremacists. Just the other day, AOC called Steven Miller a white supremacist. The problem, of course, is that presidential adviser Miller is Jewish. That just does not compute. Then Candace Owens testified before Congress. Slimy Democrat congressman Ted Lieu played a tape in Owens supposedly praised Adolph Hitler and, thereby, white supremacy. Owens, who is black and who has been the victim of a hate crime herself, didn't take it lying down. She responded to Lieu with the actual facts of what she had said and Owens exposed Lieu for the slime that he is.
The reality is that if the Democrats try to use the white supremacy attack against the GOP, it is unlikely to succeed this time. Instead, it is more likely to expose the Dems for the dishonest people they are. Even worse for the Dems, if they rely on attacks like white supremacy and those attacks are exposed as vapid and false, they will have nothing left to fall back upon.
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