Trump's voter fraud talk has liberals worried BBC News That last line is likely painfully familiar to liberals. Although Mr Trump's comments were over the top and easily debunked, they mirror more nuanced justifications Republican politicians have offered at the state level to justify tightening voter ... |
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Activist denounces liberals at university, gets protests
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) A prominent alt-right activist visiting the University of Colorado railed against feminists and liberals and made jokes about Muslims, overweight people and others as about 200 people demonstrated against him, the Boulder Daily Camera reports.
The paper says Milo Yiannopoulos gave a talk Wednesday titled "Why Ugly People Hate Me" in which he argued that the most beautiful people have conservative views and that "liberalism is the refuge of the joyless and unattractive people."
Milo Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. The paper says he was cheered by many in the audience of about 400 in an auditorium on the campus.
Milo Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart News. The alt-right is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.
Outside the auditorium, protesters said Yiannopoulos spews hate speech, the paper reported (http://bit.ly/2jzwxvn).
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President Donald Trump has floated the idea of a 20 percent tax on all Mexican importsas a way to reduce America's trade deficit and fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The problem? As Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin pointed out on his radio show Thursday night, if the government imposes a 20 percent tax on the southern imports, it's not Mexicans or their government that'd be paying the tax YOU ARE.
Listen:
Mexico doesnt get taxed on anything! Not a thing! Zero! Levin said. These are taxes on the American people on the American worker.
This [tax] isnt for the workers, Levin stressed. You want to do something for the workers? Unleash the economy. How do you do that? Cut taxes. Roll back cumbersome, paralyzing regulations. Rein in government spending.
Just dont pass a tax on the American people and claim youre making Mexico "pay for the wall."
Editors note: A previous version of this article was inadvertently published with the wrong headline.
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The Womens March was more a mass group therapy than the launch of a new resistance movement.
The Womens March on Washington, and in many other mostly liberal cities, is being portrayed as the launch of a new resistance to Donald Trump and Republicans.
The use of the term resistance is not by accident.
It conjures up the heroism and selflessness of the French Resistance and the Resistance movements in other Nazi-occupied countries. Since Trump is equated to Hitler in so much of liberal rhetoric, it is in their minds the appropriate analogy.
Resistance, not coincidentally, also is the English translation for the group Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), better known by its acronym, HAMAS.
This plays into the regressive lefts bizarre affinity for Islamist movements, something put on display at the Womens March through the high profile role of Linda Sarsour and the widely-distributed posters of women in Hijabs made from American flagscreated by the same artist who created the Obama Hope poster.
The word resistance thus plays into many important places in the liberal psyche.
But in reality, the Womens March was more a mass group therapy than the launch of a new resistance movement. It was a way to try to stave off a demoralization of a once hopeful liberal electorate.
We have seen such demoralization play itself out in the crying, group cry-ins, and generally hysterical reaction to Trumps victory.
Its likely to get worse before it gets better.
Trump is fast out of the gate, and throwing out so much change so fast, it has liberals demoralized.
First came cabinet nominations which, to liberals, are an abomination going to the heart of liberal control of the culture the education bureaucracy, environmental regulation, and the Justice Department as political tool.
Barring something startling, its unlikely liberals can stop any of Trumps nominees.
That sense of demoralization is witnessed in the reaction to Trumps decision to move forward on the Keystone and Dakota access pipelines. One environmental activist group tweeted out that Trump is pushing DAPL and Keystone because they were stopped by our movements. He wants us demoralized. It wont work.
But in reality, it likely will work. Liberals will become demoralized.
There have been reports that Trump will seek to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From reactions Ive seen on Facebook and elsewhere, that move if it takes place is seen as a mortal threat to an important part of the Democratic base which depends on federal largesse for their artistic and political livelihoods.
Trump also has signaled that he would act forcefully against a form of protest movement important to liberal self-identification, so-called sanctuary cities. Trumps press secretary made clear that the administration would look to cut off federal funding streams for cities that defy federal authority on immigration.
And next week Trump will nominate a Supreme Court justice who almost certainly will be a conservative unacceptable to the liberals. Despite Chuck Schumers taunts that he will block any such nominee, in reality there is little Democrats can to do stop it without provoking a Republican nuclear option.
In the age of Trump, liberals are anti-change. They liked the status quo, and seeing it slip away is demoralizing for them.
It is in this context that the Womens March needs to be understood. They put on a heroic face, but I dont think they believed it.
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Liberals desperately fight demoralization - legal Insurrection (blog)
By JOHN McCULLOUGH Opinions Editor
During the Republican primary season, the vast majority of media attention was intensely fixated on the eventual victor, President Donald Trump. Through the grueling months of pageantry and spectacle, Trump successfully spellbound the media with demagogic rhetoric and political theatrics. One of the most widely focused-on incidents came during a Fox News Republican Primary debate, in which tension arose when moderator Megyn Kelly questioned if Trump possessed the appropriate temperament to serve as President of the United States. This conflict was heightened as Trump responded to the criticism in media, attempting to undercut Kelly with a misogynistic reference to her menstruation. Kellys feud with Trump turned her into an overnight hero of journalistic integrity among liberals and centrists. To many, this was proof that she was the good kind of conservative, a member of an honorable opposition that could be trusted to foster reasoned debate.
However, in liberals haste to recruit an enemy partisan to their side, Kellys actual record as a mud-slinging right-winger was swiftly forgotten. Her new fair-weather friends forgot about numerous outrageous statements that had won her their contempt years before, such as her gravely serious insistence on air that Santa is white, or that community activists should stop complaining about the excesses of police brutality. The sands had shifted, and no matter how contemptible her stances on the issues were, she would be exalted as a hero of idealized decency. The problem with this is simple: as the political spectrum shifts further to the right, more and more reactionary figures will seem positively reasonable by comparison. In fact, this is already happening.
Politicians formerly decried as right-wing extremists and war-mongers have now been deemed principled figures of a bygone era. Comparisons have been made longing for the days of George W. Bush, whose administration used false information to kickstart a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Others who have been forgiven for past offenses when criticizing Trump are Paul Ryan, whose number one political goal is the privatization of social security and medicare, and Chris Christie, who has waged an all-out war on teachers unions in his tenure as Governor of New Jersey. Naturally, both capitulated to Trump as soon as it became politically expedient.
Liberals reveling in the spirit of the enemy of my enemy is my friend is nothing new. During the 2016 Democratic National Convention, former Reagan administration staffer Doug Elmets received lavish applause when he declared to the Republican nominee: Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan. While this has quite a bit of rhetorical stopping power, it is a form of historical revisionism that seeks to exonerate a particularly shameful period of American history. It seems doubtful that Trump would be so offensive to a man who refused to sanction apartheid in South Africa, funded anti-communist terrorists, and ignored the AIDS epidemic while thousands of Americans languished and died. Attempts to paint Reagan as a man who would be appalled by the evolution of Republican Party are at best naive and at worst disingenuous. When the man decried in the 70s as the most extreme right-wing candidate the party had yet seen is appealed to as a moderate forefather, a grave historical error has been made.
Instead of real dissent or argument, many liberals remain satisfied with pining for a forgotten rational conservatism. Many seek to re-write history to suit the narrative that reactionaries of the present-day are historical anomalies that The Right of the past would want nothing to do with. This practice does nothing to help liberals; it only exonerates their past enemies. If the center-left does not cease with this reckless variety of political rehabilitation, they might someday be forced to laud Trump in the face of a president so reactionary he will seem reasonable in comparison.
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Liberals: Megyn Kelly is Not Your Friend - Fordham Observer