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America
has reached an inflection point. In a nation built on individual
liberty and God-given rights, leftists have decided they should be the
sole arbiters of what is or isn’t acceptable in modern society. With
relentless help from the rank propagandists who have killed journalism,
they have determined that anything that doesn’t comport with
progressive dogma is not only wrong, but evil. Evil that can be
completely dismissed at best — or eliminated, possibly violently, at
worst. The current focus of their unrestrained rage is a red baseball
cap with Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,”
printed on the front.
Their hatred is raw and real. “Before he encountered Omaha elder Nathan
Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial, Covington High School student Nick
Sandmann had already taken steps to provoke and insult people of
color,” writes NBC columnist Noah Berlatsky. “He’d put on a MAGA hat.”
Berlatsky’s overt bigotry, as in the ridiculous notion that he is a
spokesperson for “people of color,” would likely be unsurprising to
Eugenior Joseph. Last Mother’s Day, the 22-year-old black American was
harassed by employees at a Miami Cheesecake Factory for wearing a MAGA
hat. According to multiple eye witnesses, employers threatened Joseph
with violence, called him names, and followed him to the bathroom.
Multiple video clips and photos validate those eyewitness accounts.
As for MAGA, Berlatsky is equally blunt, asserting, “America was great
when Trump fans could hurt others — especially non-white others — with
impunity.”
Who’s hurting whom? In addition to Joseph, a quick search using the
words “people attacked for wearing MAGA hats” yields a number of
equally contemptible instances of people being harassed or assaulted,
including a trans activist assaulted in Hollywood, a Brooklyn man
attacked with a broken bottle in a Manhattan bar, a Texas teen
assaulted at a Whataburger in San Antonio, and an Arizona man who had
his ankle broken in a Tucson encounter.
Apparently such people automatically deserve such treatment. “It
matters that they wore ‘Make America Great Again’ hats,” asserts CNN
columnist Issac Bailey, referring to the Covington Catholic School
teens subjected to one of the most contemptible media smear campaigns
in modern history. Bailey is particularly incensed by the hat’s
acronym. “When was America ‘great’? he asks. "When millions of black
people were slaves? When hundreds of thousands of black men were sold
to US companies via convict leasing? Maybe during the heart of Jim
Crow, the height of lynching, or when black people struggling with drug
addictions were viewed as criminals to be controlled, not fellow human
beings needing help?”
How about when slaves were freed at a cost of 360,000 Union soldiers’
lives, or when Martin Luther King triumphed over the same Democrats who
established the Ku Klux Klan, embraced Jim Crow, and opposed the 13th,
14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution — amendments banning
slavery, guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former
slaves, and granting black Americans the right to vote, respectively?
Like so many progressive propagandists, Bailey tells half the story
because the other half is utterly inimical to his twisted agenda. It’s
an agenda completely immune to hypocrisy as well. “Together, we can
make America great again,” said Bill Clinton in 1991, using the phrase
as a springboard for his presidential campaign. The same campaign over
which the Left swooned.
Unfortunately, this toxic brew of rage and hypocrisy has found a home
in the nation’s education system, where two generations of
semi-literate, semi-numerate students who know next to nothing about
history, civics, or the Constitution are nonetheless well-attuned to a
single idea: America is an inherently flawed nation in need of
“fundamental transformation.”
Fundamental transformation that leftists would like to impose by any
means necessary. Thus it should surprise no one that Kentucky Democrat
and House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Yarmuth not only
showcased his contempt for the Covington students but the Constitution
itself. “I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers
wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on,” he
tweeted. “They seem to be poisoning young minds.”
What is poisoning minds, young and old alike, is the Left’s ongoing
determination to reduce America to series of tribes. “People become
groups — and an individual’s own guilt or innocence beside the point,”
warns columnist Katrina Trinko.
Individualism itself is also becomes beside the point, which is why the
Left is obsessed with identity politics. The dissemination of
propaganda becomes far more difficult when inconvenient “anomalies”
conflict with The Narrative™. Better to sweep Eugenior Joseph and other
equally problematic MAGA hat-wearing exceptions under the proverbial
rug than allow them to “complicate” memes such as the one that white,
Catholic, male, pro-life students wearing MAGA hats are privileged,
backward, toxic, misogynistic, and deplorable.
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