Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has been taking it on the chin since he came out for Trump – and has become the object of the typical Internet storm one would expect when someone isn’t supporting the Left asks a question and then answers it (emphasis mine):
“I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.”
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired. On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
Heck, as we know here at the ‘Grok, if you are loud and proud of being a Conservative and write or talk about it, you can get fired. Tick off some “protected sub-sub-sub Democrat identity group” and they will come and find you.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.
Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?
That last bit – I’ve been called all of those names by those on the left (right, Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress?) and sometimes by Republicans (Heh! Simply for holding onto the seemingly quaint notion that the Platform actually should be followed and have called Republicans out when they deviated from it – Consistency much?).
Yes, like some Ron Paul supporters, there have been reports of Trump supporters also not behaving well. But as the James O’Keefe videos are showing, such behavior is not just condoned but hired and paid for.
(H/T: Instapundit)
