If Trump wins decisively, then conservatives are everything we’ve ever been accused of being: racist, nativist, xenophobic and totally comfortable with big government as long as it benefits people we happen to like,” said Tom Nichols, a senior contributor at online magazine The Federalist and professor at the Naval War College.
Donald Trump’s counterpoint, this morning: “There’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have. You take a look at Palm Beach, Florida -- I built the Mar-a-Lago club -- totally open to everybody. A club that, frankly, set a new standard in clubs and a new standard in Palm Beach.”
Allahpundit:
There are a lot of like-minded trolls on Twitter but only a fool would extrapolate broad conclusions about the total electorate from a social-media niche. I did notice today, though, that Ben Shapiro of Breitbart -- a vocal anti-Trumper -- has been regularly retweeting anti-semitic cartoons and messages that have been tweeted at him for criticizing Trump. I asked him if it’s common for him to get attacked that way when he opposes a politician. He said no, that this is as bad as it’s been since Hamas supporters started spamming him for defending Israel during the Gaza war, but he doesn’t think the trolls represent most Trump fans. (Neither do I.) Tapper also retweeted someone who referred to him as “Jew Jake Tapper” with the comment “All day, this garbage.” John Podhoretz, another Trump critic, replied to that by claiming he gets 75 tweets like that each night. Hot Air alum Noah Rothman, also anti-Trump, is getting it too. Other Jewish conservatives have made similar complaints. This will continue to be mostly ignored in the primary, partly because it’s deeply embarrassing to the GOP to acknowledge it and partly because supposedly there’s nothing worse than being politically correct, even when being “politically incorrect” is taken as a license to call people “kikes.” You’ll hear a lot about it this summer, though, once the Democrats and the wider media emerge as the country’s main anti-Trump political force and they start bearing the brunt of this. Hope Trump’s got better spin by then than “my earpiece didn’t work.”
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