The Colorful Joe Biden

The Fantastic Fogey
4 min readOct 15, 2020

Aspersion casting in an election year is as an Olympic sport. During election season, heaping ugly and untrue allegations on one’s opponent is a political rule. As has been the case for a generation the Left’s biggest allegation is that the Republican nominee is a racist.

Trump is a racist, G.W. Bush was a racist, G.H. Bush was racist, Reagan was a racist. Notice a pattern here? Were Democrats aware that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican they would call him a racist. Leftists, Democrats, and the mainstream press use their prejudices as a basis to call others prejudiced.

In Trump’s case these paragons of racial virtue typically offer three examples as proof of their claim, and all three contain truth construed into a lie.

Example #1: Charlottesville, VA Protest Violence

About the violence that occurred in the aftermath of a protest in Charlottesville, Va. the Left seized on six words they took out of context to accuse the president of being a racist. They claimed that President Trump said that there were “very fine people on both sides,” at that tragic event.

The truth is those words were purposely misreported. Yes, Trump said them, but he did so while describing the two sides of the Confederate monument debate, not in describing white supremacists at the Virginia tragedy.

Example #2: Trump’s Immigration Policies are Racist and Xenophobic

Oft repeated claims the Left uses to “prove” Trump is racist center on the…

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The Fantastic Fogey
The Fantastic Fogey

Written by The Fantastic Fogey

Husband, father, and generally good-natured conservative essayist.