Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power time we stop falling for their hoaxes
Whoever posted a video on President Trump’s social media containing a racist animation of the Obamas as apes committed an own goal that overshadowed what otherwise would have been a great week for the administration.It shouldn’t have needed the GOP’s only black senator, Tim Scott, to decry the clip as racist for the post to be deleted and an apology issued by the White House.The one-minute video reposted late Thursday night on Trump’s Truth Social account was about voter fraud in the 2020 election, one of the president’s favorite subjects.At the end, the video flashed for a split second to a clip of the Obamas from an old “Lion King” meme depicting Democrats as animals, and Trump as a lion.It was obviously a mistake.
Trump says he never watched the video through to the end, and the White House says a “staffer erroneously made the post.”It certainly doesn’t warrant the breathless media coverage it’s received all weekend.The New York Times’ rapid response squad went into overdrive, shoehorning the outrage into its silly new “Autocracy Index” measuring how close Trump is to turning the country into Nazi Germany.“What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism,” one opinionista asserted.The storm in a teacup helps the resistance media maintain the fiction that Republicans, especially the MAGA variety, are irredeemably racist, while Democrats are paragons of virtue when it comes to defending minorities.The truth is the very opposite.You can see the inherent racism — or is it classism — on the Democrat side most acutely in their opposition to voter ID in the SAVE America Act, which is up for a vote in the House this week.The Trump-backed legislation will require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID to cast a ballot.Democrats have gone ballistic in their desperation to stop it.They call it a “racist GOP voter suppression bill,” “Jim Crow 2.0” and “segregation-era tactics used to disenfranchise black voter...