A recent Facebook post was of interest to me, primarily because of the retort to a post of a news article pointing out that neither President Trump or VP Pence bothered to attend any commemoration of Veteran’s day. In an immature “Well, oh yeah?” retort the writer attacked Barack Obama. When the childishness of this was pointed out by another reader, the responder came back with, “All the hate, why all the hate?” This was, of course the manufactured myth that Donald Trump is the honorable, innocent, recipient of a great deal of unjustified abuse by people with absolutely no reason to dislike him or his actions.
I have, in the past, asked persons like this for a calm, reasoned discussion of why they believe Trump is worthy of their defense and/or why his actions are praiseworthy. It was patently obvious to me that this respondent, who works in the financial sector, was not one who could do so. Now, I would assume that someone who works in that industry would have at least heard of economics and would understand the real nature of Trump’s gaffes to date, beginning with tariffs. (the cause of some of the world’s great wars). I would also believe that anyone in that sector would know that some of the principal architects of the 2008 housing bubble collapse are people Trump picked for his cabinet, including the Secretary of the Treasury, formerly CEO of Bear Sterns. Additionally, I would have to believe that this man would be aware that the current good economy is simply a continuation of the recovery which beginning goes all the way back to 2013. Anyone in the world of finance should also be aware that many of Trump’s statements regarding tax cuts, military pay raises and sound economic policy are all diametrically false.
Perhaps this person could explain why condoning blatant racism is the mark of a “good” man. Or maybe the idea of sex with a porn star while one’s wife is pregnant resonates with this individual. Who knows? Typical of the Trump sycophant is a phenomenon we have seldom seen to this degree, that being that if his God (Trump) is insulted or criticized, the proper response is to immediately attack someone else. For example, Trump insults a handicapped person and the response to justifiable outrage by such a person is to attack Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Similarly, while Obama was the target of a great deal of far right (including Trump) abuse because of federal deficits incurred while slogging out of the great recession, caused largely by persons like Trump, the first Trump budget sports the largest deficit ever, which is odd, considering how proud Trump is of his financial genius.
The criticism of those who dislike Trump seems to stem from the inability of those who feel this way to understand that their anger is a reaction to bad behavior. This is the social equivalent to Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.One wonders how many times these folks can tolerate Trump’s blatant lack of concern for those he governs. And then the light goes on! It becomes clear on reflection that those who take such umbrage at criticisms of Trump’s behavior do so for primarily one reason. That reason? Trump’s racism, sexism, disregard for the welfare of children, and intolerance for the truth, and inability to get along with anyone who doesn’t worship him is matched by the inadequate personalities and lack of empathy of his supporters.
Trump attacks for such reasons as someone asking him a reasonable question and then continuing to ask when Trump evades answering. Those who oppose him criticize because his actions in doing so are unpresidential and mean spirited. No president in the modern era has ever used the office to bully and slander people like Trump. His supporters don’t care because many of them are people with various emotional disorders, among which are feelings of social inferiority, racial bigotry (“Oh, but some of my best friends are black!), economic failure or fear of it, simple greed, xenophobia, inability to empathize, and/or the same malignant narcissism for which Donald Trump should be poster boy. Criticize Trump, you’re criticizing them. Many probably have few, if any, friends whose opinions religion, or ethnicity differ from theirs, another Trump characteristic, except in Trump’s case he seems to simply have no friends, period.
So, the lonely, disaffected and socially inadequate identify with this emotional train wreck because many of them are already on the rails themselves. What they may classify as “hate” is simply a justified response to bad behavior. Newton got it, but then most Trumpists think Newton is a fig bar.
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