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Long before the El Paso massacre, President Trumps political opponents accused him of sowing >division< with his >racist language.< Mr. Trump >exploits race,< >uses race for his gain,< is engaged in a >racially divisive reprise< of his 2016 campaign, stokes >racial resentments,<� and puts >race at the fore,<� the New York Times has reported over the past several months.
Of course, this is all a bunch of lies.
Mr. Trump rarely uses racial categories in his speech or his tweets. It is the media and Democratic leaders who routinely demonize individuals and groups by race and issue race-based denunciations of large parts of the American polity.
Some examples: As race dominates the political conversation, 10 white Democratic candidates will take the stage (the Washington Post); Mr. Trumps rally audiences are overwhelmingly white (multiple sources); your sons whiteness is what protects him from not [sic] being shot by the police ( Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ); white candidates need to be conscious of white privilege� (South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg ); white supremacy manifests itself� in the criminal-justice, immigration and health-care systems ( Sen. Cory Booker ); Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri ( Sen. Elizabeth Warren ); whiteness is the very core of Mr. Trumps power, whereas his predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness (Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic).
Liberal opinion deems such rhetoric fair comment, even obvious truth, not racially divisive.
What a toxic double standard. It is manifestly divisive, and it is evil.
Trump Isn’t the One Dividing Us by Race - WSJ