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A License To Hate
Hoover Institution ^ | January 16, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/16/2019 2:33:55 PM PST by Kaslin

Recently on CNN, former Republican politico and now Never Trump cable new analyst Rick Wilson characterized Donald Trump’s supporters as his “credulous rube ten-toothed base.”

Wilson was not original in his smear of the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump. He was likely resonating an earlier slander of Politico reporter Marco Caputo. The latter had tweeted of the crowd he saw at a Trump rally: “If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”

Was the point of these stereotypes that poor white working-class people who supposedly voted for the controversial Trump understandably ate improperly, did not practice proper dental hygiene, or did not visit dentists—or all three combined?

When challenged, Caputo doubled down on his invective. He snarled, “Oh no! I made fun of garbage people jeering at another person as they falsely accused him of lying and flipped him off. Someone fetch a fainting couch.”

Caputo’s “Garbage people” was also a synonym for the smears that two career FBI agents on separate occasions had called the archetypical Trump voters.

In the released trove of the Department of Justice text communications involving the Clinton email probe, an unidentified FBI employee had texted to another FBI attorney his abject contempt for the proverbial Trump voter and indeed middle America itself: “Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS [“pieces of sh*t”].” In fact, Trump in 2016 received about 90 percent of all Republican votes, about the same ratio as won by both recent presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: hatespeech; hatred; pc; vdh
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1 posted on 01/16/2019 2:33:55 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Put Rick Wilson on a bicycle in fly over country. Any bets he even makes it even 10 miles?


2 posted on 01/16/2019 2:36:50 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Bring him up here to Idaho and see how well his bull shit sells.


3 posted on 01/16/2019 2:38:42 PM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: Kaslin

Never confuse the righteous hatred of evil with the evil hatred of righteousness.


4 posted on 01/16/2019 2:43:17 PM PST by coaster123
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To: Kaslin

The globalists are at the core of Trump hatred. They realize that Trump’s America first instincts, his wish to disengage from foreign entanglements and his overt celebration of American sovereignty, nationalism and culture is a real existential threat to their world dreams. The globalists know no limits to the sacrifice of American blood and treasure to achieve their aims. Today four more young Americans were killed in Syria and others were physically and psychologically maimed forever. No globalist was there in uniform to share the risk or shed tears.


5 posted on 01/16/2019 2:44:26 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Kaslin

Can you imagine if someone made similar generalizations about the uneducated people who vote Democratic?


6 posted on 01/16/2019 2:48:15 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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“Can you imagine if someone made similar generalizations about the uneducated people who vote Democratic?”

Why no, that would be racist!!! ;)


7 posted on 01/16/2019 2:55:15 PM PST by Nakota
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To: Kaslin

I know that they do not like me. I don’t really care. I don’t like them. So as far as I am concerned, the feeling is mutual.


8 posted on 01/16/2019 3:08:23 PM PST by sport
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To: Candor7

Have you seen Rick Wilson? For this clown to make fun of anyone’s appearance is appalling, either that or his family can’t afford a mirror. He is small, bald, pasty white with a weird shaped head; I don’t like to dump on others but he asks for it with his stupid damnation of the 63 million of us.


9 posted on 01/16/2019 3:27:32 PM PST by laconic
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To: Kaslin

Who’s financing these mother#&%$s.


10 posted on 01/16/2019 3:37:21 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Kaslin

11 posted on 01/16/2019 3:42:39 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Kaslin

Its not just a license to hate, its a license to exterminate us. Which they will try to do if they get a chance.


12 posted on 01/16/2019 4:17:51 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Kaslin
“Those who slander the deplorables and irredeemables assume that they can say almost anything and expect no pushback.” And this is the real key. This is the exemption, this is the license to hate. They can say whatever they want, and there isn’t going to be one negative reaction to these people. They are not going to be held accountable. There won’t be any pushback. They get to say all this stuff with freedom.

“We are learning that the entire idea of political correctness was never much about universal ideas of tolerance of the other, or insistence that language and protocols must not stigmatize individuals by lumping them into stereotyped and dehumanized collective groups. What we are witnessing, instead, is that it is fine to demonize millions, from their appearance to their purported hygiene and smell to affinities with feces and apes—if it serves political or cultural agendas.”

Rush added: In other words, you can be as mean-spirited and extremist and filled with hate all you want, as long as your target is Trump voters and Republicans. You’ll be hailed and applauded and invited back over and over again on cable news to continue the vitriol and the hatred. “Cultural progressivism is about raw power, not principle.”

13 posted on 01/16/2019 4:44:08 PM PST by DeweyCA
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To: Right_in_Virginia

That poster of PDJT captures the current situation very well.


14 posted on 01/16/2019 4:52:28 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Kaslin

The well armed and well trained are not afraid.


15 posted on 01/16/2019 4:55:02 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Yes, that looks like where we are headed. I don’t think it will work out well for them.

Unless ignorance is a virtue and enhances the continuation of the species, I don’t think it does, the leftists are devolving into a type of subhuman.


16 posted on 01/16/2019 5:04:33 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Flick Lives

Soros?


17 posted on 01/16/2019 5:23:57 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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18 posted on 01/16/2019 10:05:54 PM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll say it again...are they truly so stupid to start a fight with those with all the guns? It’s clear their “get rid of the guns” programs aren’t working.

You’d think they might want to reconsider their pushiness.

Oh well, if needed I know a factory in Lonoke, AR that can pump out thousands of rounds a month.


19 posted on 01/16/2019 10:14:40 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'm so excited for Mitt to be back. He and Paulette can reboot: Romney/Ryan 2.0.2.0. ;-))
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To: Kaslin

Two more for the list.


20 posted on 01/16/2019 10:14:53 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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