In a recent interview with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “I would just ask, as a fellow American, if you could consider whether or not dialing down the temperature–trying to bring down the temperature–might be a healthier thing both for your campaign and for the nation at large.” And PBS’ Tavis Smiley–who once said Ronald Reagan “tortured” blacks–calls Trump a “religious and racial arsonist.”
If only Tapper and Smiley would urge liberals and Democrats to adhere to the same level of civility and probity they demand of Trump. For example:
Vice President Joe Biden, during a 2012 campaign speech, told a predominantly black audience in Danville, Virginia, that Republican candidate Mitt Romney was “going to put y’all back in chains.” ...
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in 2011, said Republicans “want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.” She further compared the push for voter ID to the imposition of a poll tax, a notorious relic of the Jim Crow South. ...
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