Is Trump Politically Correct?

When Obama was President, almost every time I walked into a bookstore, I would bump into a book display with a bunch of books telling me that Obama was a no-good bum. There would be at least one, if not two books on how he was subverting the Constitution, there would be another book on how he was some kind of Muslim in disguise, and there would always be at least book about how America was going down the drain.

Then beginning in 2017, this same display case in the front of the bookstore held books which said that Trump was a no good S.O.B., or a Fascist, or worse. The catch-all way that Trump was usually described was as a racist and an authoritarian who manipulated the grievances of lower-class white males to push himself into the driver’s seat in 2016.

The liberal response to Trump as a threat to the democratic system continued throughout his four White House years, even though the threatened democratic system easily withstood his 2020 off-year assault and rejected him entirely in 2020 with the decisive victory of Kamala and Joe.

Of course, the Fascist tide reached a new level of danger on January 6th, but even here, if you happened to be unable to access any kind of media for three or four hours, you missed the whole thing. And even though Trump has boasted that he would pardon all the rioters if he got back into the White House in 2025…