https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/the_appalling_misguided_mindset_of_the_nevertrumpers.html
The ever-disappointing, Trump-hating Bret Stephens has disappointed his former fans again. He hates the President but admits the Democrat party is off the rails. Indeed, it is. In his most recent column, he mis-states Trump’s tweet re: the “send them back” controversy. Trump merely suggested they go back – – to Somalia, Detroit, the Bronx and Boston, fix things then tell him how to fix the nation. It was not a racist tweet in any sense of the word any more than his stating the truth about Baltimore was racist. Skin color never enters Trump’s mind, actions, or accomplishments. He is a colorblind person.
He was right about the anti-Americanism of the lamentable “squad” and he is right about the obvious deterioration of Democrat-run cities that have been unaddressed for decades because to speak the truth aloud is instantly deemed racist. That is how our politics have been for decades, and it escalated over the eight years of the Obama race-baiting years. Obama set race relations back and he did it on purpose. It was all by design, meant to promote a surge of identity politics — and it worked.
Stephens is like many people today who think their hatred of Trump is validated because of what they think they know about his character and his past. They feel self-righteous for objecting to his every move because he was, at various times of his life, a womanizer and a savvy businessman. What has that to do with how he has run his administration? Absolutely nothing. Had our media been as disrespectful of many previous presidents as they are of Trump, the young of those years would have been equally outraged. Woodrow Wilson, whom Rahm Emmanuel just praised as a heroic progressive the other day, was an avowed racist. LBJ was as well. Emmanuel touted the Great Society as a success, but it was an abject failure. Its “War on Poverty” was a disaster of catastrophic proportions; it destroyed black families in particular.
