Time for Trump Haters to Put America First
BY DAVID LIMBAUGH <https://pjmedia.com/columnist
2020
Once again, President Donald Trump is being scapegoated for societal
problems that he didn't cause. He didn't bring the coronavirus to our
shores, and he has not created an atmosphere of racial disharmony in this
country.
Is there anything Trump's haters won't blame on him? They've been trying to
remove him since before he was sworn in, and every time they fail, they find
another excuse - from the Russia-collusion hoax to Ukraine to the
coronavirus to economic hardship from the shutdown to the murder of George
Floyd to the subsequent mayhem in our cities.
Trump roundly condemned George Floyd's murder shortly after it occurred, but
that wasn't enough. He condemned the organized thugs who hijacked the
protests to vandalize, loot, and endanger innocent people, but that was
unacceptable. By condemning the anarchists, he was somehow chilling the
peaceful protestors' free speech rights and showing insensitivity to their
cause and their pain.
After delivering a speech in the Rose Garden during which he promised to
restore order to America, he walked across the street with a Bible in his
hand to visit St. John's Church. That, too, was revolting to his detractors,
who pilloried him
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for staging a photo op.
Actress Debra Messing tweeted side-by-side images of Trump and Adolf Hitler
each holding a Bible and said that it was "a dog whistle to white
nationalists and Nazis." The virtue-signaling activist's allergy to the
Bible might tell you all you need to know about her.
Sen. Chuck Schumer was so outraged by Trump's visit to the church and the
temporary removal of protestors there that he offered a "sense of Congress"
resolution to condemn Trump. There is just no end to their posturing.
People who viscerally hate Trump find fault in everything he does. But his
supporters are on to this now. The haters have gone to the well too many
times, and they are as intellectually dishonest as they are excessive. They
are out-of-control bullies always unwilling to give him the benefit of the
doubt.
Those wrongly accusing Trump of dividing the nation are themselves tearing
us apart at the seams. He's working to restore law and order, and they're
trying to undermine the peace.
When your policies are dramatically improving the lives of minorities, which
they were before the shutdown and will be again, it's unsettling to your
political opponents whose power depends on winning 90% of the African
American vote and who have nothing to offer except patronizing policies and
vilification of Republicans. Democrats so thoroughly take their vote for
granted that their standard-bearer, Joe Biden, says blacks who won't vote
for him aren't black
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The left has been demonizing Republicans as racist for decades. And it
maliciously depicts Trump's signature stance on immigration enforcement as
racist as well, which enhances its false narrative that Trump is
presumptively racist and all of his actions should be viewed in this light.
So when Trump denounces antifa terrorists for turning our city streets into
war zones; torching and pillaging commercial establishments
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Constitution.
No. He is doing precisely what a president should do. He is upholding the
Constitution by restoring law and order; reestablishing domestic
tranquility; and protecting American citizens, their property, and their
livelihoods. He is not on some power trip here; he is trying to prevent
criminals from engaging in wanton destruction and dismantling our civil
society.
Just as one can simultaneously defend the right of citizens to peaceably
protest while condemning rioters and looters, one can support the
overwhelming majority of good and honorable law enforcement officers while
condemning renegade cops.
If we surrender to domestic terrorists and criminals, we won't have a nation
anymore, which is apparently what the anarchists want. Stunningly, they're
making substantial progress.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed cutting $100 million to $150
million from the Los Angeles Police Department budget to reinvest it in
communities of color.
Do you think this conspicuous pitting of cops against minorities is
accidental? If LA officials want to increase expenditures to minority
communities, why gut the police budget? The obvious answer is that Garcetti
is sending a message that cops are the bad guys and punishing them somehow
helps minority communities. Neither minorities nor anyone else will benefit
from emasculating the police force.
It is indeed a sad day for America when people cheer on the disintegration
of our society.
Of course, decent and civilized people must denounce the murder of George
Floyd
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of police brutality, but that doesn't mean losing our heads and condemning
all police officers by the very same type of stereotyping and antipathy that
lie at the root of racism. We are all individuals and must be accountable
for our own behavior, not smeared by a broad brush of indiscriminate
condemnation.
Couldn't Trump's opponents, who constantly accuse him of dividing the
nation, just once try to join him in combating these deadly menaces
threatening our society - the virus, the economic shutdown, and the violence
in our streets - instead of always focusing their energy on destroying him?
Pray for cooler heads to prevail. Pray for America's peace.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty
by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on
Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com
<http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/
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