The party of Donald Trump has the gall to complain that someone else is being uncivil
By Paul Waldman
June 26 at 10:01 AM
Just over three years after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president claiming that Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, then proceeded to cut a swath of resentment, anger and hate across America, we’ve all become terribly concerned that a Democrat here or there has been uncivil to the people who work for this least civil of presidents. I can almost hear the cackles of glee from the White House.
It’s as though I stood outside your door for years blasting death metal through gigantic speakers at 150 decibels, and when you finally shouted, “Hey, keep it down!” I demanded that the police arrest you for disturbing the peace. Have we gone nuts?
If you’re a Democrat in Washington, there are some double standards you’ve gotten used to, exasperating as they may be. For instance, any Democratic policy idea is immediately answered with “But how are you going to pay for it?” with endless stern lectures about the deficit we’re leaving our grandchildren. Democrats then dutifully find cuts and new taxes to offset whatever they propose to spend, then watch as Republicans balloon the deficit with tax cuts and still pose as advocates of “fiscal conservatism.” But to hear, in the era of Trump, that liberals are the ones being “uncivil”? You have got to be kidding me.
What are the horrors to which Trump and his aides have been subjected? White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant after staff members expressed their concerns about Trump administration policies to the owner (and they comped her cheese plate). Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled at a Mexican restaurant by protesters angry about the administration’s policy of separating parents and children at the border. Trump staffers have found it hard to get dates in Washington because people are repulsed by what they do. And Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a regular Trump antagonist, told a group of supporters, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Oh, and Robert De Niro said the f-word at the Tony Awards.
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