The Donald's Scarlet X
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Last week, perennial showman and occasional presidential candidate Donald Trump stood accused of one those sins, if not more, for his defiant remarks on illegal immigration. Said The Donald famously about Mexico, “They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.”
To be sure, Trump might have phrased his observation more elegantly. That said, there is an element of truth to it that the media and the political class refuse to acknowledge. That refusal has turned America’s southern border into an open wound, one that is slowly infecting the nation writ large. If a presidential candidate cannot point this out, who can?
If our friends on the neo-puritan left had their way, no one could. Outraged by his heresy, they slapped a scarlet X on Trump for xenophobia and used the coercive power of the media to punish him. If he had been nabbed with a stash of kiddie porn, Macy’s, Univision, NBC, and even NASCAR could not have disowned him more quickly.
Although the norm in seventeenth-century New England, the punitive use of civil law to impose morality represents a new and nasty turn for the American left. That turn seems to get nastier by the day. ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/the_donalds_scarlet_x.html
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