Heaven help those who declare themselves holier-than-thou! That’s a lesson Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts might want to learn before accusing President Trump of using racism to achieve his election victory last November.
In this clip, Warren makes two bold statements — first, that the nation’s voters are angry because of economic circumstances and second, that Trump took advantage of this and used people’s innate racism to fuel his win at the ballot box.
It’s unquestionable that the first statement is totally true — there are plenty of statistics (including many readily found on Wikipedia) to show that median household income fell precipitously during the presidency of Barack Obama.
But the second statement is patently false — it’s not racist to blame illegal immigrants who don’t pay taxes but who send their children to our public schools for free and use our superior medical services. And it’s not racist to blame workers who assemble American automobiles in Mexico for less money than American workers make doing the same job in America.
In fact, it’s the policies of Warren’s allies like Obama and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who supported disastrous free-trade treaties like NAFTA, CAFTA and TPP, which helped fuel the original problems that led to voters’ anger in the first place.
Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for populist rage. And it’s these voters who President Trump cares about and is trying to help with his policies, now that he’s in office. Watch as liberal Warren tries to play the race card, when it’s really economics (and recent political history) that she should be talking about.
