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| Chicago's way of telling Trump, "You're Fired!" |
Because
as we all know by now, those people got so unruly that the Trump people wound
up cancelling the event – offering up some vague talk about doing the event
somewhere else at another time.
THAT
HAS CAUSED an all-too-predictable outburst from people determined to think
Trump was disrespected by Chicago. That somehow, we singled him out for undue
abuse. Trump himself is going about using the word “thugs” to describe our city’s
behavior.
I
have an uncle in Minnesota who actually is one of the nicest people I’ve ever
met, but who felt compelled to turn to Facebook to use the word “hypocritical”
and say we had a “disgusting exhibition of stifling the ‘Democratic’ process.”
I
realize my uncle has the same right to expression as anyone else. But my gut
feeling in this case is to say to my Aunt Christy, “Tell Uncle Jim to lighten
up a bit.”
Because
after taking a few hours to mill over the events of Friday, I can’t help but
think we in Chicago came up with the appropriate response to the nonsense talk
that Trump has been spewing across the country and likely thought he could do
once again in our fair city.
IF
IT TURNS out that Chicago gets a reputation for being the place that stood up
to Trump and told him to “stuff it,” then it makes me all the more pleased to
be a Chicagoan.
Yes,
I realize Trump can go ahead and act like a goof when he campaigns,
deliberately making his political appeal to the share of our society that
expresses intolerance for anyone or anything that isn’t exactly like
themselves.
Of
course, then they argue that those people not like themselves are obligated to
show them the highest of respect. It’s the ultimate hypocrisy of those people
who complain about “reverse racism” or “political correctness run amok.”
As
it turns out, four men and a woman now face criminal charges for their
behavior. Which in a group of that size, strikes me as being the proverbial
needle in a haystack. A fairly insignificant number of people.
THIS
WAS NOT some sort of massive riot in which people were killed or maimed – which
is exactly the image I’m sure the Trump types will try to create in their own
minds, then force into our thought process.
Which
is part of why I can be sympathetic to those protesters who felt compelled to
show up at the college campus Friday night.
But
there’s also the fact that Trump’s campaign strategy likes to create the
impression that there’s a hostile opposition, and many Trump rallies in other
parts of the country usually have as their highlight the fact that security
publicly removes people from the crowd.
In
some cases, the Trump types have even taken punches at those people as they’re
removed.
WHICH
MEANS THE only real difference here is that Trump was denied the moment of picking
out who got removed. That, and the fact that the Trump types didn’t get to hit
anybody – because if they had, it’s likely the masses would have fought back
and we’d have got the sight of Trump types having the caca kicked out of them!
As
for Trump, it really is common sense that if you’re going to spew so much
nonsense that targets so many people, that those people are going to want to
retort in an equal fashion. Unless your idea of expression is that Trump gets
to insult – and others just have to swallow it.
We
got to see that the Trump types really are an overly-vocal minority. Consider
the recent Chicago Tribune poll that showed Trump winning the Illinois
Republican primary next week – but only having 32 percent support and some
ridiculously-high disapproval ratings. In a one-on-one, he loses big time!
All
I know is that if the Trump types ever do try to re-schedule the Chicago rally
(as they hinted they might), it is likely to be an event so overly staged as to
bear resemblance to a Nuremberg rally of old. Which some might think an
overly-appropriate image to have?
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