Posted on 07/19/2019 3:26:33 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump rarely admits a mistake, much less an overstatement, so we’ll take the regret he expressed Thursday at the chant of “send her back” during his Wednesday rally as the moral equivalent of an apology. Let’s hope his supporters get the message, and that Mr. Trump stops egging them on.
The crowd in North Carolina broke into chants of “send her back” after Mr. Trump lambasted Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for hating America. Mr. Trump had used the words “go back” in a tweet earlier in the week, and the crowd’s chant shows how easily an ill-thought presidential comment can inspire ugly expressions of mass psychology.
The best that can be said is that the chant echoed the 2016 calls of “lock her up” regarding Hillary Clinton, and it may have begun in that raucous partisan spirit. But Wednesday’s chant was meaner in targeting Ms. Omar not merely for what she has said but as a naturalized citizen who should be banished from the U.S. The impulse is raw nativism.
Mr. Trump isn’t the first President to indulge in such group-targeted demagoguery. FDR railed in his 1932 campaign against “the Ishmaels and the Insulls, whose hand is against every man’s.” That was an anti-Semitic jibe against disgraced Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull, and the press corps at the time cheered Roosevelt on.
This time the chant was widely denounced, and not merely by the anti-Trump chorus. Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican who was at the rally, tweeted afterward: “Though it was brief, I struggled with the ‘send her back’ chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing that’s painful to our friends in the minority communities.”
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Another chant that might be good: “HELP HER PACK! HELP HER PACK!”
Amazon has a nice selection of “America. Love it or leave it” tee shirts.
They are not spazing over the chant, they are spazing over the President apologizing for them. You are the only one spazing Koik.
Uh, wrong answer. He doesn’t regret it for that reason; he wants to ride this horse and the 3 others until the election. Then get her deported. She and her brother broke the law and it will be proven, just not so fast.
We still have Freepers falling for the MSM lures.
“She was married to her cousin and her brother at the same time!”
It just keeps getting better. Yet she’ll survive.
The entire scamming family should be sent back!
The event was politically incorrect and therefore ugly.
Send her back is now a deplorabley acceptable theme . Send her back is the true reflection of the thoughts of millions and millions of Amercans who are fed up with the Ameritrash bitches and the people they represent
The line is drawn......... send her back or accept the destruction of America
There can be no kumbaya, no coexistence
“They are not spazing over the chant, they are spazing over the President apologizing for them.”
Whatever one. It is STILL a pathetic display by obviously bored people.
“they are spazing over..”
“You are the only one spazing”
Make up your mind.
“Maybe too you it is a non-issue some big guns disagree with you, including Rush and Lionel Nation. “
So? I can give you numerous times that people on this side have gone all out of sorts over something like this only to now have most of them not even remember half of it 3 months later. They’ll get over this just as well.
In 2 days, when 90% of folks have forgotten about this horrid crisis, then you will get how a bunch of nothing it is, and wonder why you wasted so much time bitching about it.
The MAGA attendees need to do it bigger and better facing the media next time-
NO BRO-MARRIAGE
STRIP CITIZENSHIP
NO JIHADRESS
etc...
I agree he needs to keep PC at bay
or else
the nation will die
But first she does deserve a PUBLIC CITIZENSHIP STRIPPING
Just shut the hell up. So somehow the WSJ has discovered how to tell EXACTLY what people are thinking.
I wonder why CBS and the rest of the media didn’t have any problem with the many people who called for Melania to be deported. Isn’t that worse than suggesting that people should return to where they came from and fix the problems there? (And really, for those from places like Detroit or New York, going back home and fixing the mess where they came from would be a good idea.)
Of course you would post some trash like this.
And there is also plenty of evidence of perjury by Rep. Omar Ilhan.
Trump just inoculated himself from the inevitable charges of racism that will be hurled at him during the general election in 2020, and he stuck 4 unpopular radical leftist Democrats with glue to the rest of the Democrats. And he managed to bring up Rep. Omar Ilhan's marriage fraud, perjury, and tax fraud. It will be fun to watch her explain that in her faith it is OK to marry her brother, or something like that.
And then the "moderate" Democrats can explain to their voters why they think it is OK to marry your brother to get some kind of college tuition discount.
Trump is not on defense at all, watch and learn.
Since you find President Trump unacceptable, who is your candidate for 2020?
So, anything Trump wants, we have to fall in line for?
What if he wants amnesty?
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