Washington Post columnist Philip Kennicott is nervous about Trump’s now famously iconic post-assassination attempt photograph. He writes:
“Blood is essential to Trump’s rhetoric, with its contrast between red-blooded patriots and the polluted blood of outsiders, or immigrants.”
It’s unfortunate that Philip Kennicott manages to fire off more projections than a movie theater when attributing to Trump a nonexistent belief in “the polluted blood of outsiders,” and that he engages in functional illiteracy by recognizing no difference between illegal immigrants and immigrants.
Unless language is no longer tethered to the meanings of the words that comprise it, the two cannot be construed as the same – denotatively or connotatively.
Additionally, Philip Kennicott is far more preoccupied with projecting an imagined nefarious danger onto this iconic image of Trump than he is in recognizing the in-your-face nefarious intent of the New Republic’s image of Trump blended with the likeness of Hitler. Could he be any more clueless?
And if he’s so concerned about incendiary violent language, perhaps a conversation is warranted regarding Democrat Rep Maxine Waters saying she “wants to take him out,” (meaning Trump).
Perhaps there should be some focus on Biden very recently saying, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye,” or on Dem Rep Bennie Thompson introducing legislation to remove Trump’s Secret Service protection, or on his field agent who recently posted on X that next time the shooter should not miss.
No apology has come from Thompson’s office.
It seems saliently obvious that Democrats give a pass to their own for that which they never tolerate from others.
