If President Obama canceled a speech because the police informed him that anti-Obama activists had threatened violence, the press would be outraged by the “hate,” conjuring up Nazi brownshirts, etc.
But when it happened to Donald Trump in Chicago, the press declared that he provoked it himself (“Analysis: Trump reaps the animosity he has sown,” March 12). The same defense is heard from wife beaters: She got me so mad I couldn’t help myself.
What’s driving the anger in this country? Lots of things. But major factors are the double standards in our press and the lack of balanced coverage of how liberal trade and immigration policies have affected working-class Americans.
Regarding the plight of working-class Americans, prominent liberal economist Jared Bernstein recently quoted a friend in The Washington Post: “No wonder they’re angry.”
And Bernstein followed it up in The New York Times with an op-ed, “The Era of Free Trade Might Be Over. That’s A Good Thing,” describing the devastating impact of liberal trade policy on American workers.
But no matter how angry Trump supporters are, and are entitled to be, they aren’t disrupting the speeches of other candidates.
Jonette Christian
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