Rep.
Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) speaks to media on Capitol Hill on June 27, 2018. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
It doesn't take Nostradamus, or even a Coney Island
fortune teller, to predict the coming Democratic presidential debates will be
filled to overflowing with accusations of racism toward Donald Trump.
Not only that, the candidates will certainly be doing
their bests, directly or by innuendo, to tarnish each other with the same
ugly brush in an almost always fallacious manner. But when it comes to the
real, down-home, George-Wallace-Segregation-Now-Segregation-Forever racial
bigotry, it will be Donald Trump by a landslide. To them, POTUS is the big,
bad, racist wolf.
This is, will be, and has been from the beginning one of
the purest examples of projection since Sigmund Freud described this form of
psychological hysteria in The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence (1894).
The Democrats are the true racists. The more they and
their press lackeys call others racist, the more racist they are
— and the more racism they generate. These days one might as well
call the Democratic Party The Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement of Racism.
They do this every day through the promulgation of
identity politics, which is no more than segregationism repurposed and given a
slick veneer for the 21st century via intersectionality and similar bogus
academic nonsense. But it doesn't end there. It's a daily, even hourly,
assault, the latest occurrence being the uproar over Trump's characterization
in a tweet of Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore as "violent &
filthy."
Did this have anything to do with Cummings being black?
Of course not. But it certainly has to do with Cummings' own over-the-top
characterization of our southern border, which Trump considered radically
unfair and purely politically motivated. Tit for tat. We've seen that from
Trump before and will again. He punches back, sometimes too easily. But color
is of no consequence, not even slightly. You could be a card-carrying member of
the DAR descended
directly from Betsy Ross and Trump would go after you if you went after
him.
Nevertheless, it had to be called racism by the real
racists — projection again. (This creepy, psychologically-deformed behavior was
frequently lampooned by Aristophanes in his plays, long before Freud gave it a
name. Molière also had a good time with this hypocrisy in The Miser and The
Misanthrope. Only now it's not a laughing matter.)
And speaking of unfair, exactly what is the
condition of Baltimore today? Like most American cities governed for decades by
Democrats — from Detroit to now Los Angeles, San Franciso, and Seattle with
their ghastly homeless epidemics — the word "miserable" seems
appropriate or perhaps "wretched" or "revolting" (but not
in the sense of revolutionary; in the sense of "What a revoltin'
development this is" in The Life of Riley).
And is Baltimore safe? US News gives it a poor rating, 3.9/10, stating:
"Baltimore's crime rate is significantly higher than the national rate,
with the metro area experiencing its fair share of violent crime – particularly
within the city proper." As for Trump's accusation of its being
"rat-infested," it ranks eighth nationally hereand ninth here. That's out of some 35,000 cities in this country. I'm
not sure how many of those got surveyed by Orkin, but Baltimore's results are
not exactly auspicious.
The conclusion we are supposed to glean from this, the
rule of rules that must be obeyed at all costs, is that whites are always wrong
when criticizing blacks. That conception is quite simply mentally deranged. It
is sick, completely reactionary politically and inherently racist in and of
itself. And yet it is adhered to by the Democratic Party and their media
lackeys with an orthodoxy even Opus Dei would envy.
And we are soon going to see it revved up even further.
During the coming debates, desperate candidates like Cory Booker and Beto
O'Rourke are likely to hurl unfounded accusations of racism at Biden and
Sanders. (These men have many failings, but racism isn't one of them.). Kamala
Harris will continue her equally unfounded attack on Biden. Pete Buttigieg will
try to find some way to deflect racism charges against him by his black
constituents back home, possibly by making the most vicious attacks on Trump of
all. (Easy enough. His background is Gramscian, so the ends justify the
means.). And so it will go. None of this will have anything to do with reality.
Nor will the corresponding attacks for sexism. Speaking
of desperation, Kirsten Gillibrand, currently without enough votes to be high
school class treasurer, will be going after Biden for his alleged
discrimination against women. As her spokesperson
said, "Kirsten believes we need to have a broader and more intentional
conversation about valuing women in this country and even this primary, and she
intends to do so in the coming days. Stay tuned."
No, thank you. Identity politics gives me hives.
(NOTE TO KIRSTEN: Have you noticed vastly more young
women are attending college these days than young men, making the future
particularly grim for males? I guess not.)
Roger
L. Simon was a civil rights worker in the sixties, donor to the Black Panthers
in the seventies (apologies for that one), writer for Richard Pryor in the
eighties, and leader of the Writers Guild's rebuilding South Central libraries
after the King riots in the nineties. He is now, he assumes, in the eyes of
most Democrats, a racist. His new novel — THE GOAT — will be published September
1, pre-orders available soon.
