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conix, Trump apologist Peggy Noonan preaching against hate is putrid.

"Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous"

'Trumpism' and the Rift Between Belief and Truth

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This is, indeed, what “Trump supporters believe.” It’s also false, paranoid, and bigoted. Unfortunately, in her desire to align herself with those “real Americans”—who don’t read The Wall Street Journal op-ed page—Noonan has adopted the habit of implying that whatever Trump supporters or their xenophobic European counterparts “believe” is true. Then she excoriates politicians for not shifting their policies in response.

Take Noonan’s latest column [ http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-global-elites-forsake-their-countrymen-1470959258 ] about German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision last summer to admit 800,000 asylum seekers. “The result,” Noonan writes, “has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism.” Notice the conflation of perception and reality. Noonan doesn’t quite say that refugees increase rates of crime and terrorism or that they don’t assimilate, whatever that means. That would require evidence. (In fact, German police report [ http://www.thelocal.de/20151113/police-refugees-commit-less-crimes-than-germans ] that refugees are less likely to commit crime than other Germans and that the vast majority of crime they do commit is nonviolent.). Instead, Noonan merely says there has been a “public furor” about crime, terrorism, and a refusal to assimilate. Then she’s off to the races, excoriating Merkel for her insensitivity to those ordinary Germans “dealing with crime and extremism.”

What distinguishes Trump supporters is not their economic vulnerability. It’s their cultural, religious, and racial resentment.

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Of course taking extreme dislike for Trump and labeling it hate is a favorite ploy of you guys, isn't it.

That's not to say rage may not be dangerous. It isn't all of the time. And it sure as hell isn't all the rage. LOLOL

You hate Hillary whereas most just see Trump as a cretin and no good for America, or the world.