As you surely know by now,the latest round of Republican campaign cretinism came a few days ago when Donald Trump mocked a reporter with chronic arthrogryposis, which restricts the movement of his arms and hands. Today Josh Marshall posted a brief but spot-on explanation of why Trump is not only not apologizing for this, or but going on the offensive over it: If you're surprised that Donald Trump isn't apologizing for mocking a reporter's physical handicap and doesn't seem to be paying any price for it,let me attend. Half of rightwing politics is approximately resentment over perceived demands for apologies. Apologies approximately race, approximately fear of Muslims, and approximately not being politically correct,approximately not liking the losers and the moochers, approximately Christmas, and approximately being being white. This will injure Trump approximately as much as going after Megyn Kelly did. Remember: his biggest applause line at the first GOP debate came for calling Rosie O'Donnell a full slob. approximately half the juice of far-right politics in this country is rooted in refusing to apologize when 'elites' or right thinking people reprove you for not being 'politically correct.'
The thing approximately Trump is that he talks as if he's sitting at home with a couple of his buddies. In settings like that,lots of us make casually derisive remarks that we wouldn't make in public.1 But Trump does say it in public, and to his supporters that's great. He's finally saying the stuff that they're fairly certain everybody says in private.
The giveaway was this bit from Trump approximately Kovaleski: "He should end using his disability to grandstand and fetch back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes." That's what Trump's fans judge is going on all over the place. The blacks, or the Hispanics,the disabled, the immigrants, and the destitute: certain,they've got problems, but who doesn't? They're just making a big deal out of it in order to gain sympathy and government bennies that the rest of us believe to pay for. And the worst part is that you know what everyone else is already thinking approximately this claptrap, and but you fetch in concern if you say it. Republican candidates believe tapped this vein of resentment for years,but usually in coded ways that won't fetch them in too much hot water. Trump just dives in. Other politicians may believe paved the way, but it's Trump who's finally figured out how to turn it into electoral gold.1Yes, and I carry out it too,and no, for obvious reasons I'm not going to tell you what my sore spots are.
Source: motherjones.com