Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
But what is racism? …Republicans and conservatives believe “racist” is a term the left employs to stigmatize, smear and silence adversaries. As one wag put it, a racist is a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.
“Send her back! Send her back!”
The 13 seconds of that chant at the rally in North Carolina, in response to Donald Trump’s recital of the outrages of Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, will not soon be forgotten, or forgiven.
This phrase will have a long shelf life. T-shirts emblazoned with “Send Her Back!” and Old Glory are already on sale on eBay.
Look for the chant at future Trump rallies, as his followers now realize that the chant drives the elites straight up the wall.
That 13-second chant and Trump’s earlier tweet to the four radical congresswomen of “the Squad” to “go back” to where they came from is being taken as the smoking gun that convicts Trump as an irredeemable racist whose “base” is poisoned by the same hate.
Writes The New York Times’ Charles Blow in a column that uses “racist” or “racism” more than 30 times: Americans who do not concede that Trump is a racist — are themselves racists: “Make no mistake. Denying racism or refusing to call it out is also racist.”
But what is racism?
Is it not a manifest dislike or hatred of people of color because of their color? Trump was not denouncing the ethnicity or race of Ilhan Omar in his rally speech. He was reciting and denouncing what Omar said, just as Nancy Pelosi was denouncing what Omar and the Squad were saying and doing when she mocked their posturing and green agenda.
Clearly, Americans disagree on what racism is. Writes Blow:
“A USA Today/Ipsos poll published on July 17 found that more than twice as many Americans believe that people who call others racists do so ‘in bad faith’ compared with those who do not believe it.”
Republicans and conservatives believe “racist” is a term the left employs to stigmatize, smear and silence adversaries. As one wag put it, a racist is a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.
In the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton famously said of Trump’s populist base, “You could put half of them into what I call the basket of deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.”
More than that, “Some … are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.” To Hillary, Trump supporters were not part of the good America, the enlightened America.
Her defamation of Trump’s followers meshes with the media’s depiction of the folks laughing, hooting and chanting in North Carolina.
Trump supporters know what the media think of them, which is why in Middle America the media have a crisis of credibility and moral authority. Trump’s true believers do not believe them, trust them, like them or respect them. And the feeling is obviously mutual.
While raw and rough, how does the 13-second chant, “Send her back!” compare in viciousness to the chant of 1960s students on Ivy League and other campuses: “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! The NLF is going to win!” This was chanted at demonstrations when the NLF, the Viet Cong, was killing hundreds of American soldiers every week.
How does 13 seconds of “Send her back!” compare with the chant of the mob that shut down midtown Manhattan in December 2014: “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!”
This past week revealed anew what we Americans think of each other, which portends trouble ahead for the republic.
For a democracy to endure, there has to be an assumption that the loser in an election holds a promissory note that new elections are only a few years off. And if the losers can persuade a majority to support them, they can reassume positions of authority and realize their agenda.
Trump’s 40-45 percent of the nation is not only being constantly castigated and demonized by the establishment media but it is also being told that, in the not far distant future, it will be demographically swamped by the rising numbers of new migrants pouring into the country.
Your time is about up, it hears.
And most of the Democratic candidates have admitted that, if elected, the border wall will never be built, breaking into the country will cease to be a crime, ICE will be abolished, sanctuary cities will be expanded, illegal immigrants will be eligible for free health care and, for millions of people hiding here illegally, amnesty and a path to citizenship will be granted.
America, they are saying, will be so unalterably changed in a few years, your kind will never realize political power again, and your America will vanish in a different America where the Squad and like-minded leftists set the agenda.
Will the deplorables, who number in the scores of millions, accept a future where they and their children and children’s children are to submit to permanent rule by people who visibly detest them and see them as racists, sexists and fascists?
Will Middle America go gentle into that good night?
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I still have a T-shirt I bought in the early 80’s, it reads….
“Speak English, or get the fuck out”
I miss the 80’s.
I bet your underwear is full of holes also.
Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke………yeh, I’ll take another 1000 round box of those 223’s………
Frankly I see the left using racism to disguise their racism. It is also a form of pandering to racial minorities. What has the left really done to improve the lives of racial minorities. Absolutely nothing! What they have done is stolen taxpayer money in huge quantities while feeding the scraps to these minorities. It is disgusting.
Racism has been used so frequently that it has been rendered to a meaningless word. Remember ‘like’ and ‘basically’ ?
Remember ‘queer’ and ‘dyke’?
The true enemy of American people are not Liberals, Muslims or any other trouble-making minorities. They are the symptoms.
The true enemy is those who control MNM, Federal Reserve and politicians through money and deceit (and blackmails).
I would send those back to where they are from. however, I don’t know where they are from. Germany, Western Europe, or a place where Ukraine is now?
You mean the Ashkenazi?
The interlopers who took over the religion, and created political Zionism?
I am afraid it is over and there is no where to run because it’s happening everywhere.
and after it is over, the same people will be in charge…
Yes, they will. This future hellscape is currently taking root in our time right now; it’s much nearer than 135 yrs off (~3 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOV8GysSTYs
Cheer up , HR is going to save the world with talking points. Watch his videos if you don’t believe me.
Will Middle America go gentle into that good night?
Yes, Pat America will go gentle into that good night because too many people are too busy reading your softball-puff piece articles.
Pat is, in my opinion, a bought and paid for columnist whose goal is to serve up shallow, pseudo-conservative content to pacify and mollify his audience.
Lastly, and for the 1,000,000th time- Pat is from Royal and Jewish bloodlines, just like all the other old-world bloodline *cunts* in D.C.
You should also be concerned about Pat’s possible relationship to Richard Spencer, the manufactured “Unite the Right” agitator, who worked at the American Conservative before agitating in Charlottesville and then melting away.
A good read -> http://mileswmathis.com/spence.pdf
Ok, exactly who besides Mr. Miles Dude do you consider NOT controlled opposition? I really don’t see anything I object to in what Pat wrote here. What exactly do you object to?
I wish Trump would send ME back where I came from! Man, oh man, that would be soooo nice.
The hefeweizen in Bavaria is awesome. I know, I’ve been there, it’s worth fighting for.
Standing on top of the highest point of the Eagle’s Nest as the fog rolled in from the Alps was one of my favorite memories. If I had a couple billion dollars I’d buy Hohenschwangau and sell homebrew to the tourists for fun.
If I see Muslims in public I will lean over and whisper “them” to my wife. It bugs her to no end.
…and speaking of bugs, it’s where I got the idea. In the opening scenes of the old sci-fi movie about giant ants it’s the same thing the catatonic little girl screams when a vial of formic acid is wafted near her nose.
When the kids were small their favorite shows were the MIB movies. One day I told them an alien invasion was on and there was a mothership across the street. The neighbor had three or four Hispanic guys on lawnmowers doing yardwork from a big towed trailer.
They didn’t know whether to laugh or be horrified. Now they’re old enough to understand why I’m so damned warped.
One of my all time favorite sci-fi movies!
The term racisim is the modern equivalent of being on the playground in third grade and calling another kid poopy head.
Are you a poopy-head, delows?
Them thar are fightin’ words!
We will vote, we will campaign, we will make our efforts within the system. We will become Irish rebellionists if necessary, and outright rebellionists in the end. Then we will withdraw to land the browns won’t inhabit as the land is now, as we have done before. Eventually we will inhabit lands abandoned by the browns in their chimerical search for the plunder of what we’ve made.
We are the God they pursue, always just a bit ahead, always within reach, yet never caught.