We keep on being sold the line that Trump is unfit to be president because he uses hateful rhetoric, and I admit that I wished Trump used less incendiary words often enough. 

But the people who make this complaint are, if anything, much worse. Trump directs his ire at what are in the end serious problems making the lives of everyday Americans worse, and in return his critics call him a Nazi, an existential threat to America, and make the most disparaging remarks about his supporters. 

Must read. Sure. https://t.co/bQglNNTOuX

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) September 17, 2024

Among the worst offenders are some former Republicans. Rick Wilson famously called for somebody to "put a bullet" in Donald Trump's head, and many of their former compatriots are quite open about their disdain for Americans who are watching their free speech rights, their family assets, and their culture slip away from them. 

It is striking that these defenders of democracy spend so much time attacking not Trump but Trump's supporters. They throw outrageous insults at them, portraying them as ignorant poltroons who should learn to code, take up voodoo or santeria if they want to fit into their communities, and, for God's sake, learn Creole.

Trump has forced many of these people to reveal something that was either true always about themselves or has become true as Trump derangement syndrome has rotted their minds: they hate Americans. We are unsophisticated; we don't want to kill babies, put men in girls' locker rooms, get a lap dance from a drag queen, or read pornographic literature to kindergarteners. 

If only we wore Balenciaga! WE would experience Joy!!!!!

HOLY SH!T

Governor Tim Walz: NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful

This man is a dangerous commie pic.twitter.com/hE8xGcRx87

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2024

What's striking is how unself-conscious these Trump haters are. They clearly don't believe their own rhetoric: if Trump were a dictator-in-waiting, they would be the first people put into the camps. But of course, they support the political party that literally is talking about criminalizing dissent, as I wrote about earlier today. 

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting "misinformation"

"There needs to be deterrence" pic.twitter.com/soxI3wl7To

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 17, 2024

They look at Great Britain and lust for the power to simply SHUT US UP because, after all, we are all named Cletus and are secret members of the Nazi party or something. 

The irony is that I would be on the barricades if Trump or the Republicans tried to shut their magazines down because I still believe in free speech and the Constitution. They are all going to vote this November to silence me because they hate what I say. 

Who exactly is the fascist again?

His unhinged obsession with Trump would not be tolerated by law enforcement if he didn’t have an NYT column

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) September 17, 2024

It is, in the end, mostly about class. Trump and Vance are Wharton and Yale graduates, but they hang out with the wrong sort of people. You know, the icky people who unclog our pipes, keep the electricity flowing and grow our food. They really need to hang out with a better class of people. 

Sure, you can hang out with plebs, but only at cocktail parties or rallies where you can lecture them. Best to stick to the radical ones and the illegal immigrants, although, for God's sake, keep those people away from Martha's Vineyard unless they are doing the lawn at a cut rate. 

Now, I don't think it is cocktail party invitations for which they are hankering; it is something much more tribal at work. They feel disgusted when they see a plumber with stains on his clothes after he unclogged a drain, and they fear that he may say something uncouth that would get one canceled at Harvard. 

I may be too sensitive. I, after all, have gapped teeth. 

But at least I went to the "right" schools.