Identity politics has overwhelmed the Democrats and the left-liberal media in the US. The big winner continues to be Donald Trump two years after he harnessed white working-class voters against Hillary Clinton’s coalition of victim minorities.
The Democrats and their media mates got it wrong again last week, overreaching in the wake of the murder of 11 Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh the previous weekend. Trump’s tweet after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history that the “fake news media” is the enemy of the people may be an exaggeration, but the anti-Trump hysteria probably helped him. Typical of attempts to blame Trump for the murders was a piece in The Washington Post by Julia Ioffe, reprinted in The Sydney Morning Herald last Tuesday. Why would a Herald editor reprint such a piece, Andrew Bolt asked Sydney Institute director Gerard Henderson on Bolt’s Tuesday night Sky News media segment?
Because it sounded exactly like the views Herald editors hear at work and on the ABC every day, replied an insightful Hendo. He also pointed out, correctly, that anti-Semitism has not been driven only by the far Right: the worst anti-Semites of the 20th century were Adolf Hitler’s Nazis and Joseph Stalin’s communists.
There is no real evidence Trump is an anti-Semite, given his daughter Ivanka is Jewish, as are his grandchildren, as an emotional Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed out at her White House press briefing on Monday last week.
Bolt in his blog on Tuesday morning outed Ioffe for misreporting a Trump tweet from the presidential campaign that she alleged contained a Star of David (it was simply a red advertising star superimposed over dollar bills and a picture of Clinton, but was changed to a circle when some alleged the Jewish reference).
Read the article by Chris Mitchell in The Australian.