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Haiti Protests Carry on Despite Fuel Hike U-Turn; Flights Canceled https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/haiti-protests-fuel-americans/2018/07/08/id/870517/
WASHINGTON (Circa) â When the Red Hen opened its doors Thursday, it was greeted by a mix of picketers and prospective customers, the remnants of anger and energy lingering after the rapidly-shifting spotlight of political controversy moved on.
The Lexington, Virginia restaurant had closed for nearly two weeks amid threats, harassment, and protests after its owner interrupted White House Press Secretary Sarah Sandersâ dinner and asked her to leave on June 22. One protester was arrested last week for allegedly throwing chicken feces at the restaurant.
The owner has defended the decision, saying her staff was uncomfortable serving a representative of the Trump administration. Alongside other cases of Trump officials having meals interrupted by activists, though, it spurred a public debate over the depths of incivility on the left.
Two thousand miles away, President Donald Trump took the stage Thursday at a campaign rally in Great Falls, Montana, regaling the cheering crowd with extemporaneous attacks on his political enemies. At one point, he promised if he ever debates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., whom he derisively referred to as âPocahontas,â he will throw a DNA test it at her and demand she prove her contested Native American heritage.
"We will take that little kit and say, but we have to do it gently. Because we're in the '#MeToo' generation so I have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm even though it only weighs probably two ounces,â he said.
Trump also unleashed insults against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who was recently scolded by her own party leadership for encouraging people to âpush backâ against administration officials in public. He has repeatedly labeled her crazy and âlow IQâ while she has reportedly faced death threats over her comments.
Democrats and feminists were not Trumpâs only targets. He mocked former President George H.W. Bushâs use of the phrase âa thousand points of lightâ to promote volunteerism and complained about cancer-stricken GOP Sen. John McCainâs vote on a 2017 health care reform bill.
Also on Thursday night, police in San Antonio, Texas arrested Kino Jimenez, a 30-year-old man accused of accosting a teen Trump supporter in a Whataburger, throwing a drink in his face, and ripping a âMake America Great Againâ hat off his head. Trump and his campaign manager have offered to send the victim a new signed hat.
These incidents represent the latest symptoms of a chronic disease in American political discourse that experts say is growing more severe and more difficult to cure with Donald Trump in the White House.
âThe vitriol and the division in our politics has been ongoing,â said Cornell Clayton, director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University and author of âCivility and American Democracy.â âI think Trump has exacerbated it, but heâs not the cause of it⌠Heâs taking advantage of it in a lot of ways.â
Michael Cornfield, an associate professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management and director of the Public Echoes of Rhetoric in America Project, sees Trumpâs deliberate rudeness as one of two major factors escalating incivility. The other is the spread of smartphones as a means of communication, changing the way people interact.
Smartphones disorient people, and a lot of what civility is is knowing where you are, who youâre with, and our standards change depending on where you are and who youâre with,â he said.
Cornfield has found Trumpâs behavior to be less of a deviation from typical hardball campaigning than others, at least when it comes to attacking other politicians, foreign countries, and the media.
âTake name-calling, for example. A lot of people have gone after Trump and said thatâs rudeâŚ,â he said. âName-calling is standard in American politics, particularly when you are campaigning for office.â
Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona, pointed to additional causes of division, including partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression, and too much money being spent on politics.
âAmerican politics has been broken for some time,â she said. âIt did not just happen in the 2016 election.â
This is not to say Trump and the cavalcade of candidates who rolled in the mud with him throughout the campaign helped matters any.
âWe saw behavior modeled by people running for president of the United States that we havenât seen before,â Lukensmeyer said.
Many progressives see calls for civility in the battle against a proudly uncivil president who ran on combating âpolitical correctnessâ as unilateral disarmament. Liberals harangued Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at a town hall Monday with demands to resist Trump and discard decorum.
âWe are in a gunfight and we have a butter knife,â one activist said, according to the Washington Post.
Others warn matching Trumpâs egregious behavior with their own further energizes his base and alienates moderate voters.
âDonald Trumpâs all-over-the-place, very unpresidential vitriol is contagious and has destroyed the Republican Partyâs ability to speak to swing voters,â said Democratic strategist Craig Varoga. âThe challenge for Democrats in this toxic environment is to learn from Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, who personally may have experienced outrage but were never publicly outrageous, and always remained strong and reasonable under the most excruciating circumstances, and always kept the moral high ground.â
Politics in America has rarely been a polite enterprise, but Lukensmeyer said the rhetoric is currently the worst it has been since the post-Civil War era. The institute had a graduate student watch every modern presidential debate before the Trump-Clinton debates, and the difference was stark.
âThere just was no kind of personal attack like we saw between Clinton and Trump and the kind of stalking behavior we witnessed on the stageâŚ,â she said. âIn terms of literally the actual language, sometimes inciting violence, that has not been seen in modern political history period.â
One significant change in the wake of the 2016 election is the continued animosity people feel 18 months later not just toward candidates but toward each other over whom they voted for.
âWe still have Americans hating, vilifying, and demonizing people who voted for the other candidate,â Lukensmeyer said.
The National Institute for Civil Discourse has received calls from people unable to interact with relatives at holiday dinners, religious leaders dealing with congregation members not speaking to each other, and corporations whose staffs have not returned to pre-election levels of productivity.
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent attorney and former Hillary Clinton supporter, has witnessed this backlash as he becomes increasingly vocal in defending the legality of President Trumpâs actions. He complained in an op-ed for the Hill this week that he has been shunned by liberals in Marthaâs Vineyard as a result.
On Fox News Thursday, Dershowitz went further, telling Tucker Carlson, âAt a party this week on Marthaâs Vineyard, a woman said, âIf Dershowitz were here tonight, Iâd stab him through the heart.ââ
Another difference from past periods of political division highlighted by Clayton is the open incivility of the White House itself, which recently used its Twitter account to accuse specific Democrats of supporting MS-13.
âYou havenât seen the sort of explicit baiting of the opposition coming from the White House,â he said.
Graham on NKorea's Rebuke: 'I See China's Hands all Over This' Sunday, 08 July 2018 10:35 AM https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lindesey-graham-north-korea-china-influence/2018/07/08/id/870529/
