By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 20, 2016
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If there is one thing the 2016 presidential election campaign proves it’s that ‘The Protest’ as the lib-left’s main agent of change is failing.
Fact is anyone can become a ready-for-rabble, pocket-change paid protester. All professional protesters need is a little free time on their hands, a deep disrespect for the property of others, a sign and a loud screeching voice like Hillary’s.“The protesters, that included immigrants’ rights activists, students and socialists, gathered in Columbus Circle near the Trump International Hotel and Tower. They then marched across Central Park South to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue where Trump lives before returning to Columbus Circle for a rally.
“I think Donald Trump is speaking a message of fascism and racism, and I don’t think that’s good for America,” said Laura Merrill, a tour guide who supports Democratic Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for president.” (AP)The problem for protesters like Laura is that Trump camp followers don’t think anything; they know America’s going down, and they know they have to stop it.
“There was a heavy police presence for the largely peaceful protest, and officers used megaphones to warn demonstrators to stay on the sidewalk, out of the streets and not to impede foot traffic. (AP)Georgie’s protesters, it seems, are so peaceful that they’re sometimes the equivalent of watching paint dry.
“At least two protesters were arrested for walking in the street. A group of demonstrators that tried to break through a police barricade was pushed back by officers, who used pepper spray. Protester Redentor Tarona, who marched as a member of a Filipino-American youth organization, said no one there wanted to promote violence. (AP)“At least two protesters arrested?"
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“We are showing the power of people,” Tarona said. “Some protesters at the event told 1010 WINS’ Samantha Liebman that they couldn’t believe Trump has come this far in the election and that they believe his rhetoric is divisive and racist. “We’re here because Donald Trump is the antithesis of what America stands for,” one Westchester man said. “Donald Trump is a danger to America,” a man told WCBS 880’s John Metaxas. “If nobody stands up and be counted, our country’s democracy will be taken away from us.”What would Metaxas call what Obama has already done, and is still doing to America, with Hillary Clinton coming down the pike to finish off the Fundamental Transformation of America?
“We gotta make sure we get out and vote and make sure our voices are heard,” another protester from Manhattan said. (AP) “Demonstrators chanted “Donald Trump, go away, racist, sexist, anti-gay” and “Immigrants are welcome here. Don’t give in to racist fear.” “Others carried signs that read “Love Trumps Hate.” Another read “Will trade 1 Donald Trump for 25,000 refugees.” “There were some Trump supporters at the rally that were heckled, but the protest remained peaceful, Liebman reported. “The protest was organized by political group Cosmopolitan Antifascists. “Trump’s policies threaten many of us in the Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, Muslim, and other communities,” the group said in a Facebook post for the protest. “These policies and type of speech has no place in this country, and certainly does not have a place in the city that Trump grew his empire in — a city known as a melting pot and home for many of the same people Trump continues to wage war on. “The protest was backed by several activism groups, including ICE-FREE NYC, International Women’s Day Coalition, Millions March NYC, Queer DEtainee Empowerment Project, Revolutionaries Against Gendered Oppression Everywhere [RAGE], among others.Any day now, signs waved by protest malcontents will read #RadicalIslamistLivesMatter. In the miasma of the current melee, even lefty mainstream media scribes seem to be losing their cutting edge. Back in the 2008 presidential race, Maureen Dowd used her Times column to attack female Tea Party candidates and their “Queen Bee Sarah”, accusing them of ratcheting up disgust with the status quo". Dowd wrote: "We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your locker and, just for good measure, spread rumours that you were pregnant." () Yesterday, when writing about the phenomenon known as Donald Trump, Dowd wrote: “All over town, even in the building where I’m writing this column, freaked-out Republicans are plotting how to rip the nomination from Trump’s hot little hands.
“How does it feel to be labeled a menace, misogynist, bigot and xenophobe by your own party? “Honestly,” he replied, “I’m with the people. The people like Trump.” “When he mocks Hillary, as he does in a new ad that shows her barking, it may backfire. Due to his inability to let go of his chew toy Megyn Kelly, Trump drew a remarkable rebuke Friday night from Fox News after he called for a boycott of her show and tweeted that she was “crazy” and “sick.” Fox painted Trump as a stalker, saying he had an “extreme, sick obsession” with the anchor. Unable to resist, even though he knows I respect Kelly, he also described her to me as a “total whack job” with “no talent.”Going after Trump for tweeting Kelly as “crazy” and “sick”, Dowd, that great defender of women, referred to Kelly as his “chew toy”? But there was this little gem in the Dowd column about Trump’s plans for Hillary:
“He said he would soon unleash the moniker that he thought would diminish Hillary, the way “Little Marco” and “Lyin’ Ted” torched his Republican rivals; “I want to get rid of the leftovers first.”Some of us can hardly wait for that moniker, Mr. Trump.
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