Today’s paragraphs come to us from National Review’s Jonah Goldberg – a #nevertrumper if ever there was one.
Here is what Mr. Goldberg has to say, in his November 16 commentary, about the left’s “Trump and everyone around him is a racist” mantra – which mainstream media are happily passing along to its suckers readers/viewers:
Activists today are clear-cutting vast swathes of civil society to make room for reason-free zones where feelings outrank facts — they call them “safe spaces.” And if they had their druthers, the entirety of the continent, if not the globe, would be one giant beanbag-chair-strewn realm of hugging and unapologetic whining.
Seemingly every day there’s another story of a college campus caving into the notion that free speech and unhappy facts are racist.
The election of Donald Trump, a man I could not have been more critical of, has turned the safe spaces into kinds of internal refugee camps where the weeping delicate flowers can wilt in terror.
I did not like how Trump talked about issues of race. Some of his most ardent supporters have views on race that I find abhorrent. But they constitute a tiny minority of his coalition. Just consider that if you subtracted from Trump’s column all of the voters who had also previously voted for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton surely would have won.
If you think everything you don’t like is racist, then of course the election of a president you don’t like has to be racist.
Jonah Goldberg wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors not for his dislike of Donald Trump (if that were a reason, I’d be handing out 100 of these a day), but for his intelligent, reasoned put-down of the ridiculously overblown charges of racism against Mr. Trump…which, it is a virtual guarantee, you will be hearing – along with his supposed nazi tendencies and probably several communicable diseases as well – for the next four years.
There’s plenty to dislike about Donald Trump without inventing and/or outlandishly exaggerating more of them.
