Kathryn Jean Lopez writes at National Review Online about a disturbing element of today’s political discourse.
I will confess, sometimes, if I listen to too much CNN or MSNBC, I am more inclined to defend the Trump administration than I would otherwise be. Of course, there is media bias. Yes, there is pile-on and missing of the point constantly. That’s fact. It’s kept the Media Research Center quite busy for almost four decades now.
I say this because, overnight, I saw people on the right complaining that the media are more concerned about how Donald Trump is talking about terrorists and violence and corruption than actual scandals in Minnesota, evidently involving Somalia and the funding of terrorism. It for the 20 millionth time shows the media are all too happy to overlook what Dem politicians do as long as the Republican — and, yes, Trump in a particular way — is defeated. …
… At the same time, conservatives also need to be able to say: It is despicable to call human beings “garbage.”
A cabinet secretary also shouldn’t be calling a governor an “idiot” at a televised cabinet meeting. And I’d leave Kristi Noem’s comment about Tim Walz alone, if Trump hadn’t previously (Thursday, defending it on Sunday) insisted Walz is “retarded.”
We don’t talk about people like that. …
… We can’t be associated with that kind of talk.
The president of the United States ended his press conference by calling a population of humans “garbage.” On social media, I got pushback: Narco-terrorists are garbage, for instance, I was told. Look, that’s an evil trade with evil people. It’s from the pits of hell. …
… But as long as you are a human being on this earth, you’ve got a shot at conversion. And, as long as you are on this earth, yes, we have responsibilities to justice, but also to watch the way we even speak of human life.
