I was going to say that one should not ignore the rest, because usually one can find a lot of statements that show how some items that are not accurate are fossilising and repeated in conservative media.
The example I noted there is a common one, and items like that need to be noted because what the right wing media attempts to do is to unleash hate against the person or groups that are complaining about injustice or just try to make this place a bit better:
86% of white voters who scored high in authoritarianism voted for Trump. I don’t think you understand what we are discussing. Right wing authoritarianism is a personality trait that gives you the following personality attributes.
I agree with you, there is something of an authoritarian left. But they are mostly restricted to college campuses and very small in numbers. Its a handful of college students. I don’t support their behavior. Shouting down speakers, preventing rallies, attacking people, etc. is a bad idea.
I am not sure where I stand on the Sarah Sanders issue. On one hand right wingers love to stand ouside of abortion clinics and yell at people, or let private companies deny service to gays. Now they are pretending to be victims for having the same done to them. On the other hand, its a slippery slope until we are back in the 40s and blacks and jews can’t go to restaurants. I don’t know where I stand on this.
Fundamentally the issue is this, you don’t understand what I and others are talking about with regards to authoritarianism. You are discussing people who want government regulation. We are talking about angry, afraid bigots who don’t respect democracy. Not the same thing. The authoritarian left is an issue, but they are a mob. The authoritarian right control a major political party.
You are discussing any kind of regulation you don’t like. The rest of us aren’t. The rest of us are discussing angry, scared white people who don’t respect democracy and score high on RWA indexes.
Some political positons of George Will, he does not sound like a Republican to me.
1 ) Will once proposed that the United States withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, and defended Barack Obama’s response to the uprisings after the 2009 elections in Iran.
2 ) He also criticized the Bush administration for engaging in warrantless surveillance, and supported trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
3 ) On immigration, Will supports tighter border security and a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants.
What we have here is a guy with Democratic positons saying don’t vote for Trump.
But it is interesting what you consider the positions a “true Republican” would take.
A “true Republican” would be against withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. (Of course Trump before being president had on multiple occasions called for such withdrawal, “time to come home”, “a complete waste”, “should leave Afghanistan immediately.”
A “true Republican” would support warrantless surveillance and be against trials as required by law no matter what SCOTUS says.
A “true Republican” is not for tighter security and is not for any path for citizenship.
The positions that are for getting out of Afghanistan, being for privacy rights, following the laws of the land, having tight borders, and having immigration reform that offers an eventual path to citizenship, are all Democratic positions.
Dang there have been quite a few who have been and are GOP elected officials, from in the White House to Congress and down, who are actually Democrats! They may have called themselves Republican, been elected to office as Republican, been called Republican, but they have not been and are not “true Republicans.”
But you are right. The GOP is defining itself in such a way as to exclude more and more of its traditional own. Not all all them realize that they no longer belong yet to be sure.
That’s it? A laundry list of only three items, instances, even, of “objectionable” items from a man who’s been writing professionally and supporting the GOP for almost 50 years? And those 3 items are so egregious that they somehow lead to the conclusion “no way is George Will a Republican”?
The white vote is rather diverse. It seems like the Latino’s and African Americans are more likely to vote on " racial issues ". Democrats dupe them, but I think many are seeing their wages are going up under Trump and jobs created. Hopefully, they change their voting habits on election day.
Studies show, minority groups are more likely to be racists, perhaps because they aren’t doing as well in general.
Trump own because he’s calling things as they are. American is getting ripped off, overtaxed, and could be doing much better in many areas. Less than two years in, he’s got some major accomplishments.
As for decency, the left is losing their manners on the topic, and it could reach a dangerous level. Confronting people in gas stations, movie theaters and restaurants? Really. And let’s not forget some left wing nut job tried to shoot up a softball field of people based on political preferences.
For some reason this post by **Silver Lining **made me remember this:
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers in the instant replay
There will be no pictures of young being
Run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still life of
Roy Wilkens strolling through Watts in a red, black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the right occasion
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and
Hooterville Junction will no longer be so damned relevant
and Women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised
Steve Schmidt has been a vocal critic of Trump (and the direction of the GOP) for some time; he’s a regular guest on MSNBC’s evening shows (Maddow, O’Donnell, Williams). But, this is the first time I’ve heard him say, explicitly, “vote Democratic.”
To be fair, these examples are real different from what you’re talking about. The examples from the left involve confronting people in power about their specific actions; the examples from the right involve yelling at random innocent people. The examples from the left draw sharp responses from the president; the examples from the right don’t.
But yeah, this hands-aflutter dismay at the lack of civility on the left, when we have story after story after story after story of the most vicious verbal attacks imaginable coming from the right, is pretty rich. Clean your own house, ferchrissakes.
No, and I never suggested it did. It’s still bad. I merely wanted to know if seeing some examples of left-wingers “yelling at random innocent people” would persuade him that it’s not a bad thing exclusive to the right side of the political spectrum.
If this is the only argument you put forward, then this is exactly what you are saying. No denial that it happened, no explaining why it isn’t/is wrong, no excuses for what happened-Just “They do it to”.
You seem confused. You appear to think that I’m arguing over whether yelling at random innocent people is good or bad. I’m not. I think we all agree that it’s bad. I am arguing over whether it’s something done by just the right alone or the right and the left. That’s a factual question, not a moral one.