The White Supremacy Trap?
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Why Do Republicans Fall for the White Supremacy Trap?
By Jack Cashill @ American Spectator
The media used the same playbook for Trump and Rep. Steve King: misquotation and false accusations.
No one watching the presidential debate Tuesday night understood the trap “moderator” Chris Wallace set for President Trump better than Iowa Rep. Steve King. As a result of that trap, King is now serving his final days as a congressman.
The mechanics of the trap were painfully obvious. As his opening gambit, Wallace asked Trump a question fully irrelevant to the state of the nation: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups?”
“Sure,” replied Trump. The questioning should have ended there, but when Wallace persisted, Trump made the appropriate rejoinder, “Sure, I’m prepared to do it, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace.”
Instead of exploring the incessant left-wing violence that has crippled any number of cities, Wallace and Biden tag-teamed Trump into an ambiguous declaration about the Proud Boys, a curiously interracial, right-wing group 90 percent of the audience had previously not heard of, including possibly the president.
Trump said, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the Left.” As Christopher Caldwell observes in his book The Age of Entitlement, all it takes to be a racial pariah today is “some imperfectly calibrated phrase,” and perfect calibration has never been Trump’s strong suit.
Having long since sacrificed their integrity, the major media made the predictable follow-up move. “Trump Refuses to Denounce White Supremacy in Chaotic Debate,” trumpeted the headline of the impressively shameless New York Times. Read More
The ‘White Supremacy’ Trap
By Gregory Hood @ American Renaissance
[The] presidential debate revealed the faulty assumptions most media are using against President Trump. President Trump was right when he said to moderator Chris Wallace, “I guess I’m debating you, not him, but OK.” President Trump is debating almost all media outlets and journalists.
This morning, there are countless stories and tweets that President Trump “refused” to denounce white supremacy. Many people claim they are outraged because President Trump didn’t specifically disavow the Proud Boys. Tim Scott is also falling into this trap by saying the president “misspoke.”
Colbert calls Trump's refusal to condemn the white nationalist men's rights group Proud Boys “one of the most telling, one of the most upsetting moments, not only of the night, but of my lifetime” https://t.co/HgFPfz39yZ
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) September 30, 2020
Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy, says "stand back and stand by" on Proud Boys movement https://t.co/djPe4dZoNP pic.twitter.com/SG2kzUwBqv
— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
President Trump did say he was “willing” to condemn “white supremacists and militia groups.” However, he wanted specifics. Joe Biden named the Proud Boys. The Proud Boys are a multiracial group of civic nationalists. President Trump may have made a verbal fumble when he said, “stand back and stand by” instead of “stand down,” but he certainly didn’t call for them to march. In any event, why should the Proud Boys have to stand down? They aren’t the ones burning shops and attacking police. . . Read More
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