This is a truly bizarre analysis of a Donald Trump supporter in Dear Prudence, a four times a week advice column that appears in both the Washington Post and the on-line Slate. These are respectable, establishment outlets and let me confess that I am a devoted fan of the erudite and often funny author, Emily Yoffe. Obviously, there must be something about the Donald that makes otherwise sensible people deranged.
The advice-seeker, “Democrat daughter,” is worried about her late 50-ish mother’s sudden infatuation with Trump (“my man Donald”). While Mom always shunned politics, she had now totally fallen for Donald, especially his anti-immigration message. To wit, though employed in a clinic catering to poor people, most of whom are Hispanic, she has become outspoken about illegals and anchor babies.
Mom also spews these “hateful views” in public (and on social media) to anybody who would listen and “Democratic daughter” worries that the hatefulness might get her mother fired. What is this concerned daughter to do with her unexpectedly politicized mother?
Prudence has no sympathy for Mom’s newfound political passion. Indeed, given the contempt for those she serves on her job, Prudence muses that it might be a good idea if she were fired. This advice-giver also characterizes Trump as a “raging narcissist” whose soaring poll numbers make no sense. And, from the can’t-make-this-stuff-up department, suggests that this sudden political fervor warrants a frank mother-daughter talk and visiting a doctor for a complete medical check-up, particularly since the “sudden crush” might be brain tumor related.
The column then concludes by hoping that “Mom’s man” soon craters for the sake of Mom and the country.” All and all, the problem is the Mother’s problem, a psychological disturbance with a possible lethal underlying physical cause. All shades of Soviet and Cuban policies of sending dissidents to psychiatric wards.
That the Washington Post would print this anti-Trump rant as “helpful advice” to “a concerned” daughter clearly reflects the establishment’s near panic with the Donald stirring up the unwashed, i.e., our once apathetic Mom. That these newly awakened Americans are overwhelmingly white and relatively less educated and un-socialized into PC dogma makes this amalgam especially perilous for the likes of Prudence and other bien pensant folk at the Post.
It is this ability to bring to the fore a once suppressed, taboo-filled agenda, all the while galvanizing the apathetic, that explains the vitriol directed at Trump. A GOP political consultant, without a scintilla of evidence opined, “There are a lot of folks who are, to be charitable, into white identity politics, and to be uncharitable are outright racists, who are supporting Trump.” For some Trump resembles George Wallace’s 1968 presidential run targeting down market whites angry over being singled out for racial social engineering.
Read more of the Trump article at The American Thinker
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