Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left.
In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did an impression of what the left thinks is a supposedly neanderthal Trump supporter.
The episode was NBC’s tele-version of the recent Obama-Hillary Clinton-Biden vocabulary of cheap MAGA disparagement: clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, chumps, dregs, semi-fascists, and ultra-MAGAs.
Most of those stereotyped props were evident in Hanks’ character.
He was wearing a red MAGA hat (real and not the fake versions of Jussie Smollett’s wild and sinister imagination).
Hanks sounded off as a superstitious evangelical, a slow-speaking Southern twanger, and a poorly dressed slob.
And of course, the SNL writers insisted that he play the gratuitous racist. So, Hanks, as a clueless Black Jeopardy contestant, initially refused to even shake the hand of the African-American, assumed intellectually and morally superior, gameshow host.
We are supposed to believe the Hanks caricature is in contrast with progressives—usually represented in society as the bicoastal enlightened, well-spoken, and snappily dressed.
VDH is again whining about MAGA getting no respect. He pulled out three examples of how the continual dissing is going on and on and on and on by the progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers. Why not, it has worked so well for them in the past that they don’t need to change their approach. I don’t think they ever learned or will learn that sticks and stones will break our bones, but names will never hurt us? It is not a hard lesson to learn, many of us already have! You can see from the results of their efforts, they don’t think we have. Oh, well, I guess that they can keep on trying.