The New York Times Blames Trump | City Journal
The New York Times devotedly follows the cardinal rule of liberalism never blame the victim! at least for officially designated victims of American racism and classism. Slavery, for example, not higher rates of criminal offending, is responsible for blacks unequal involvement in the criminal justice system. If unwed mothers are poor, the reason lies in heartless welfare rules, not in the decision to have a child out of wedlock.
But when it comes to Donald Trump, victim-blaming is de rigueur. According to the Times s premier Trump-basher, Peter Baker, Trump is responsible for the attempted assassinations against him. At the heart of today s eruption of political violence is Mr. Trump, a figure who seems to inspire people to make threats or take actions both for him and against him, writes Baker in today s lead print story. Trump inspires the attacks against him. It is hard to imagine this line of thinking applied to other victims of assassination attempts Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln, for example but it is as tautologically true in their case as in Trump s.
Heather MacDonald.