President Trump’s heart is in the
right place, but his mouth keeps getting him in trouble. He has done many good things in his avowed
commitment to “Make America Great Again,” but his intemperate tweets have his
most loyal staff members running for cover.
The President’s threat to discontinue daily press briefings may be the
only way to save Sean Spicer’s dignity if not his sanity.
Trump haters in Congress and the
media are giddy with the daily fodder he provides them for their daily
cannonades. The sad consequence is that
unrelenting, one-sided criticism is ultimately destructive of our democratic
institutions.
The obstructionism of Chuck Schumer
and congressional Democrats—their opposition to anything Trump—is devoid of any
consideration of truth and civility. A
perfect example was their monumental hypocrisy in the wake of the President’s
firing of FBI Director Comey, the man whose decapitation they had called for
incessantly in retribution for Hillary’s defeat.
Some argue that Democrats are
feeding the frenzy in the mass media, especially the hysterical fulminations of
cable TV stations like MSNBC. Others
argue that the media are legitimizing the hyper-partisanship in Congress. Either way, this symbiotic relationship of the
Left is proving very harmful to what should be a constructive national
dialog. Worse, it is infecting other aspects
of society, particularly among the young.
We have had many examples of
institutions of higher learning like UC Berkeley denying First Amendment rights
to Conservative speakers. Now we have
the graduating class of black Bethune-Cookman University hissing, booing, and
turning their backs on commencement speaker Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
for no apparent reason other than her association with Donald Trump. This rudeness was an undeserved and misguided
insult to a woman who is dedicated to improving the education of inner-city black
youths through her advocacy of school choice.
Will the madness ever end?
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