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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
10:09
How to Attack Trump’s MAGA Slogan, Critics Still Can’t Decide | Larry Elder
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Together, we will make America strong again.
We will make America wealthy again.
We will make America proud again.
We will make America safe again.
And yes, together, we will make America great again.
Make America great again.
From the first time President Trump used that expression, it's driven the left bat bleep crazy.
How crazy?
I was walking on a canal.
It was some sort of event.
And I got jumped from wearing this hat and started cursing at me.
Trump had blah, blah, blah.
But basically, one kid took my head and bashed it against the scaffolding pole.
It all happened within 10 seconds.
I jumped out, crossed the street, and I called the cops.
This is my situation right now.
It looked like the scene of a storm, but instead was where police say a Republican voter registration drive in Jacksonville, Florida, was attacked by this man.
who later told police it was because he does not like President Trump.
This is Really disgusting attacks that cannot be allowed to continue.
And I think, unfortunately, it looks like they are on the rise.
Other recent examples include an alleged attack at this New Hampshire high school, which served as a polling place for this week's primary, where this man is accused of attacking Trump supporters, including a 15-year-old boy.
It's very unfortunate.
Hopefully we can avoid things like this happening in the future.
Then there's Nelson Gibson, who told our sister station CBS 12 in West Palm Beach he wasn't allowed in his dialysis clinic with this life-size cutout of the president, though he was able to bring in smaller versions.
To say they have contempt for the man would be an understatement.
You're a liar, Trump.
I mean, the Dems, the media, Trump haters, they have no idea how to deal with that popular Make America Great Again slogan.
I mean, check out their confusing, bizarre, often contradictory reactions.
The fact of the matter is, this is a great country which does not have to be made great again.
That work, that work is not to make America great again.
Again, America never stopped being great.
We...
America is already great.
It is great.
It was great.
Great!
Then, why this?
Let me tell you something.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
Things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially, a nation of cowards.
The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, that casts a long shadow.
And that's still part of our DNA. That's passed on.
We're not cured of it.
Racism.
Racism.
We are not cured of.
Clearly.
You see, here's the problem.
Racism is no longer a major problem in America.
But in order to get that 95% near monolithic black vote, Democrats have to make blacks feel that racism remains a major problem in America.
And that's why when it comes to things like dealing with slogans like make America great again, the Democrats are practically at war with themselves.
So when Trump says make America great again, he is being jingoistic.
He's being chauvinistic.
He's being racist.
But you know what?
He wasn't even the first one to use that slogan.
And we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again.
Okay, forget about Reagan.
Like Trump, he's right wing, right?
He's a Republican.
What about Bill Clinton?
I believe that together we can make America great again.
Now, was Bill Clinton's use of that same expression jingoistic, chauvinistic, racist?
You see, mega drives them crazy because they are schizophrenic about America, the way Obama was.
There were two Obamas.
I call it the tail of two Obamas.
Here's Obama one.
You think the country's ready for a black president?
Yes.
You don't think it's going to hold you back?
No.
I think if I don't win this race, it will be because of other factors.
It's going to be because I have not shown to the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.
What do you think it means when you hear the words, let's make America great again?
I think America's pretty great.
If you had the choice to be born in any one period of time in our history, and you didn't know ahead of time whether you were going to be rich or poor, black or white, male or female, you just had to guess on what moment do you have a best chance of succeeding?
It'd actually be now.
Proud of America?
If I lose, it won't be because of racism.
It will be because I failed to articulate a vision that the American people can embrace.
Hallelujah!
But there's a second Obama.
I call it the Victocrat Obama.
The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, that casts a long shadow.
And that's still part of our DNA. That's passed on.
We're not cured of it.
Racism.
Racism.
We are not cured of it.
In a summer marked by instability of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri, where a young man was killed and a community was divided.
So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
I'm glad that Not only is the Justice Department looking into it, I understand now that the governor of the state of Florida has formed a task force to investigate what's taking place.
I think all of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen.
And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident.
But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin.
You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that.
But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry.
Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.
And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident, is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos Being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.
Well, just how racist is America?
There were 700 counties that voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
200 of them switched to Trump in 2016.
When were they bitten by that racist radioactive spider?
And get this, Obama got a higher percentage of the white vote than John Kerry did four years earlier, and Trump got a lower percentage of the white vote than Mitt Romney did four years earlier.
Now, about racism and whether or not it would be in the Republicans, let alone Donald Trump's best interest to use it, Chris Matthews, before he got fired from MSNBC, let the cat out of the bag.
Listen to this.
Mainly it's for white people, because white people won't vote for a guy, most of them, if they think they're racist.
What's that, said the former press secretary to the left-wing Tip O'Neill, Chris Matthews.
Most white people won't vote for somebody if they believe he or she is a racist.
So therefore, it would not be in Trump's best interest to pull out a dog whistle, let alone a racist dog whistle.
So can we knock it off?
You may not think you're a racist.
I don't know if you are.
I don't think every Trump supporter is a racist.
But you certainly had to overlook racism and bigotry in order to make that decision.
Finally, I got hungry and I had to leave the house to go shopping.
I've got good news and bad news.
The bad news is this was the only thing available.
That's right, a dented can of bat soup.
The good news?
It was on sale!
There's an old joke.
Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort, and one of them says, boy, the food at this place is really terrible.
The other one says, yeah, I know, and such small portions.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
I'll see you next time.
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