Remember the anti-anti Communists of yesteryear? These left-liberal intellectuals considered “McCarthyism” far more insidious than Communism and the Soviet Union itself.
The equivalent today is people who are anti-anti Muslim.
Trump’s detractors view his “Islamophobia” as a bigger threat to America than the nihilistic Muslim terrorists he is determined to contain. Consider Washington Post blogger Phillip Bump.
His 9:25 AM post, “The Brussels attacks and the increasing isolationism of Donald Trump,” shows just how morally obtuse and ignorant many of the GOP front-runner’s critics among the intelligentsia really are. Bump clearly found the unfolding news of murder and mayhem in Brussels small stuff compared to Trump’s reaction.
His priorities, keen news instincts and obliviousness to the ongoing threat of Muslim terrorism are obvious from the first paragraph.
“In the wake of the bombings that killed dozens of people in Brussels on Tuesday, Donald Trump — most likely safely cocooned in his luxurious home at the top of the Manhattan skyscraper he built — called in to Fox News to discuss terrorism and his proposed response.”
Wait. Safely cocooned?
New York is no longer a tempting target for terrorists? And high-rise buildings in Manhattan are famously immune to terrorism anyway?
Just look at how well the Twin Towers survived the 9/11 attacks masterminded by Islamophobia victim Osama Bin Laden!
After making known his resentment that Trump was safe, Bump barely talked much about the horrific scene overseas.
Instead, as Newsbusters blogger P.J. Gladnick wryly noted, everything was all about Trump.
“’I would close up our borders to people until we figure out what’s going on,’ Trump said to the hosts of the cable network’s ‘Fox and Friends,’sounding a bit groggy. “‘We have to be smart in the United States. We’re taking in people without real documentation, we don’t know where they’re coming from, we don’t know what they’re — where they’re from, who they are.'”
“It’s not clear whether Trump’s off-the-cuff comments were meant to be a reiteration of his past calls to ban Muslims from entering the United States or if it’s a new, more expansive call to curtail all travel in and out of the country,” Bump continued.
And, “Trump’s past comments on closing the border to Muslims met with a receptive audience from the public. National polling in the wake of Trump’s proposal showed support from members of his party for the idea. When the question has been asked in exit polling from Republican primaries, huge majorities expressed their support for the idea — and pluralities of that group expressed their support for Trump in every state except Ted Cruz’s home of Texas.”
The column tally: “Terrorism” merited one mention. “Attacks” got three and “Brussels “four.”
But in sheer numbers “Trump” shlonged them all with 18 cites.
It is a safe bet that for people in Brussels today terrorism not Trump is on their mind.