Trump Haters Attack Trump Voters

​A License To Hate
This report from Victor Davis Hanson was read on Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show

1-16-19, * -- 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.”
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Smearing the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump is likely resonating with an earlier slander of Politico reporter Marco Caputo who 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.” Apparently the point of these stereotypes was that poor white working-class people who supposedly voted for the controversial Trump:

• ate improperly,
• did not practice proper dental hygiene,
• or did not visit dentists—or all three combined?

When challenged Caputo 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. [Lisa Page and Peter Strzok] An unidentified FBI employee 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”].”  More here:

• Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, fired FBI operatives on Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, Strzok right before the 2016 election had texted his paramour Page: “Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.”
• Jim Carey [actor] tweeted a picture of Trump supporters as apes, as if evolution is now operating in reverse as Trumpians descend into primate status.
• Rep. Hank Johnson [D-GA] recently compared Trump to Hitler, and characterized Trump’s supporters—which included 90 percent of the Republican Party—as “older, less educated, less prosperous, and they are dying early. Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair."
• Former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden, claims that Trump supporters are “virulent people” and “the dregs of society”.
• Multimillionaire TV personality Donny Duetsch said Trump supporters who favor building a barrier on the southern border: “This is all [Trump] has left. That one metaphor, that one thing that talks to that 39, 40, 41% base that says: either the black man, or the brown man, or the Jewish man, or the media man, or the banker man is coming to take your wife?” Democrats too? Biden and Chuck Schumer supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizing 100s of miles of border fencing.
• Historian Jon Meacham and Rep. Stephen Cohen (R-TN), Trump’s audience and appeal are similar to those of the Ku Klux Klan’s of the 1920s.
• The racist Harvard Law School grad Sarah Jeong - although the New York Times takes loud pride in its adamant opposition to hatred and racial, class & gender bias — at least in theory the Times hired Jeong who is on its editorial board. She is Asian-American whose objects of her hatred purportedly are old and white. She recently said: “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?” And “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” And “White people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.”​​

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​These outbursts were all voiced from highly educated elites:

1. Caputo has a journalism degree from the University of Miami
2. Deutsch graduated from the Wharton School
3. Jeong from Harvard Law School
4. Strzok master’s degree from Georgetown
5. Wilson attended George Washington University

All engaged in vicious and cowardly stereotyping of a demographic in a manner that they assumed involved no downside.

Note the force of such dehumanizing invective that transcends political differences. Trump voters were not just mistaken in their political allegiances. Instead they looked like:

• toothless zombies
• smell bad, stink up stores
• not quite human
• uneducated
• less prosperous
• destined to die off old folks

For decades race and gender studies academics had argued that overtly expressed racism against whites was not real racism, but could be contextualized by prior white oppression. In the age of furor against Trump, their theories now went off campus and were being adjudicated by a wider constituency—and yet they did not seem to win agreement from the general public. The irony, of course, is that these professionals displayed far less humanity in their crude put downs.

However, the hatred isn’t confined to the media and politicos, but rather also came from the very top of the Democratic Party. After the election, a defeated Hillary Clinton openly doubled-down on her earlier smear of Trump’s base as deplorables and irredeemables, in recalibrating Barack Obama’s old saw of the white working class as “clingers” who had failed to appreciate his transformative candidacy.

​What we are witnessing it’s 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. In sum, cultural progressivism is about raw power, not principle. 

In closing, Trump in 2016 received about 90 percent of all Republican votes, about the same ratio won by both recent presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney.

*Excerpted and adapted full original report from syndicated columnist & historian Victor Davis Hanson at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University here