Democrats have been politicizing hurricanes since at least Katrina

Charles Hurt:
President Trump, it has been reported in all seriousness, is a hateful, racist conspiracy theorist hellbent on ridiculing the deaths of some 3,000 Puerto Ricans reportedly killed by the double hurricanes that blasted the island territory last year.

Only a monster like Donald Trump would dare politicize the weather. Or turn every natural disaster into a political cudgel in this manner.

Oh, wait! Donald Trump did not do that.

Democrats in Washington did that. Crazy News Network did that. The New York Slimes did that. The Washington Compost did that.

For years, leftist hacks in the Democrat Party and conspiracy loons in the media dreamed of cobbling together a never-ending, self-generating political smear machine that would automatically fight to destroy their enemies with relentless abandon.

Impossible! No such thing could be invented! Even if such a thing did exist, only a truly soulless, dishonest and evil sorcerer of politics would unleash such a diabolic genie.

Then Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, a year after President George W. Bush blindsided all the media and the entire political world by winning re-election over their strenuous objections.

All bets were off. The frothing jackals began yipping. They circled. Went in for the kill.

Within a couple of days of Hurricane Katrina, it was all Mr. Bush’s fault. He may have even personally detonated bombs to blow up the levees in New Orleans.

Ever since, the weather has been all about politics. Every time there is a hurricane, it is blamed on the nearest Republican. If a Republican is in the White House, then the “act of nature” is blamed on him — along with every casualty resulting from it.

If Barack Obama is in the White House for a hurricane — or a massive oil leak in the Gulf or anything else that would destroy a mortal politician — then it becomes a photo opportunity during which Mr. Obama can blame Republicans for all manner of atrocities, but mainly racial inequality and divisiveness.
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Hurt is right about the Democrats and their dishonest attacks on Republicans.  And if they can make the attack about fake racism that is a twofer for them.   They have been making their bogus charges of racism for 50 years against Republicans and now for over a decade, they blame bad weather on them.

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