{"id":33695,"date":"2018-06-22T21:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33695"},"modified":"2018-06-22T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:51:20","slug":"how-in-the-world-did-we-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33695","title":{"rendered":"How In The World Did We Get Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line<\/a> posted an article about the recent Donald Trump rally in Minnesota. The rally was a typical Trump rally with cheering crowds and large attendance. At one point there was a picture of the crowd that appeared on the Internet. However, there were some events surrounding the rally that reflect the current insanity of political dialogue in America at this point.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

But maybe the craziest leftist outburst of recent days is the attack on NBA Hall of Famer Kevin McHale. Scott and Howard Root wrote here about President Trump\u2019s triumphant appearance in Duluth, Minnesota last night. Trump almost carried Minnesota in 2016, and in all likelihood, if he runs again in 2020, he will win the state\u2019s electoral votes. A photograph taken at last night\u2019s rally that appeared on Twitter, if studied closely, revealed that one of the thousands in attendance was Kevin McHale, who grew up in northern Minnesota and spends summers there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes the photo and states:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty much a \u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo\u201d exercise, but if you study the photo closely enough, you can discern that McHale was one of the thousands in attendance. He didn\u2019t speak, his presence went unmentioned, but he was there. And left-wing Twitter went nuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I lived in Massachusetts for thirty-five years and watched Celtics basketball, but there is no way I could find Keven McHale in that photo–but that’s not the point. Twitter went nuts–attacking both McHale and his wife.<\/p>\n

This is one of the tweets shown in the article:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The article explains that this is simply one in a series of attacks by liberals on anyone connected with Donald Trump or supporting Donald Trump or his policies. It is not healthy dialogue.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

This is a phenomenon we have seen repeatedly over the last year and a half. Liberals try to rule any support for President Trump out of bounds. Anyone who expresses even the mildest support for Trump is read out of polite society. He is shunned; he should be fired from his job; if he writes anything, it shouldn\u2019t be printed; he is publicly denounced and inundated with hate; his home, in some instances, is besieged and his children terrorized. If he ventures out into public, he is harassed by bullies. This is the essence of 21st century liberalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it is evil. It is incompatible with democracy or any kind of civil society. And, above all, it is completely crazy. After all, Donald Trump won the election. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Liberals are trying to dictate, through mob rule and control over the press, that any support for the President of the United States is unacceptable and, if at all possible, career ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone has the right to free speech, but it seems as if the liberals have totally lost any perspective they might have had. Personal attacks on people because of their political views are not constructive dialogue. Mob rule and bullying are not political strategies. Hopefully they will fail miserably and not be used again.<\/p>\n

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