A liberal’s shocking inhumanity toward a kind Trump supporter
By Maureen Callahan
February 9, 2021 | 2:40pm | Updated
Let’s all get acquainted over what a liberal media figure assures us is the latest philosophical crisis:
If your driveway is buried under thick snow, and your Trump-supporting neighbor plows it, for free and without even asking, are you to speak to him? Acknowledge him? Would saying “Thank you†be a betrayal of all your superior and infallible political beliefs?
Such is the quandary explored by Virginia Heffernan in a column for the Los Angeles Times. “What to Do with the Nice-Guy Trump Voter Next Door†has quickly gone viral, and not for the reasons Heffernan surely hoped.
Let’s imagine for one moment a role reversal, a Trump supporter cawing like this in the public square over a liberal neighbor’s kindness. Imagine the smug, snide commentary sure to stream from late-night talk show hosts and MSNBC pundits. The New York Times op-ed page would have fodder for days. “Deranged†and “mentally ill†would be the most common appellations.
“When someone helps you when you’re down, or snowed in, it’s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world,†Heffernan writes.
But no. After asking, “What do you do with one kind act after years of support for a man who showed near-murderous contempt toward most Americans?,†Heffernan compares her neighbor to Hezbollah, Louis Farrakhan and the Nazis — the latter while informing us that, as a teenager, she spent a year abroad with an “upper-middle class family†in France.
Oh, the classism disguised as virtue-signaling! It all reeks off the page or the screen or whatever may catch your falling tears of laughter.
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