The misguided Trump hatred

 Conrad Black:

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The real problem is that his opponents, in their desperation to be rid of him, so severe was his assault upon the complacent bipartisan and political establishment in Washington, that they have committed a sequence of grievous improprieties themselves.

And instead of enjoying the advantages of opposition, they must now try to justify their misconduct in elevating what is already clearly one of the very most dangerously incompetent administrations in American history, bearing comparison only with those of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan that led directly to the Civil War.

What has really shaken American public life almost to its foundations is the sequence of five events: Donald Trump recognized when few others did the level of discontent in the traditional working and middle classes of white America and he mobilized the radical center of American opinion, which felt discriminated against in favor of a vast class of privileged yuppies and Clintonian and Obaman and parvenus.

Trump was attacking the liberal Republicans of the Bush-McCain-Romney wing of the post-Reagan Republicans as harshly as he was the Clinton and Obama Democrats. The near-unification of Democrats and traditional Republicans in opposition to Trump and his supporters assured not only a profound division in the country, but committed the hitherto complacent bipartisan political class to a no-holds-barred assault on Trump.

This was so vehement that it was almost certain to cross unacceptable legal barriers. Trump had changed parties seven times in 13 years, polling diligently and watching the ranks of those who would be susceptible to his populist appeal grow steadily. When he finally made his move, the consequences were bound to be very divisive.

His victory was so unexpected and his political methods were so uncompromisingly confrontational, it was widely believed by his astonished opponents—either genuinely or as a tactical pretense—that Trump was a lawless figure capable of almost any level of chicanery and that he only won the election by colluding with the Russian government to saturate key parts of America with partisan internet activity.

This was a complete fabrication, although it was legitimized by the corroborative opinions of the former directors of the CIA and national intelligence agencies and the antlike maneuvering of the director of the FBI and a number of his senior colleagues.

As soon as a silver stake was driven through the heart of this immense falsehood, the anti-Trump forces came snorting out of the undergrowth, claiming the telephone call in which Trump asked the president of Ukraine to find out what was the true story of the Biden family’s financial involvement in that country was an unconstitutional attempt to solicit foreign intervention in U.S. presidential election—almost exactly what they had just failed to prove in the mighty smear job sustained by 95 percent of the political media over the Trump-Russian collusion nonsense.

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This comes pretty close to explaining the irrational hatred of Trump.  This hatred was not reduced by the success of his administration in accomplishing goals that everyone should have welcomed.  The irrational hatred still persists in many quarters despite the obvious incompetence of the Democrats and Biden.  They are unwittingly proving Trump's point about them.