There are no words to express how far we
are falling as a people.
Caleb Howe
Last week we learned of two of the
many tragic deaths in the despicable and horrible massacre in El Paso, the
passing of a husband and wife shot dead while shielding their two-month-old infant.
In the days that followed, The
President and Melania Trump visited victims in both Dayton, Ohio and El Paso,
Texas, where the two attacks occurred. In the hospital in Texas, Trump posed
for photos with several people, including the family of that couple, and the
infant whose life they protected.
That photo was used in both the
mainstream press and on social media to attack the President and the First Lady
as being ghoulish or inappropriate. As those public reprimands were well
underway, the family members spoke up.
Tito Anchondo, brother of Andre and
brother-in-law of Jordan, pushed
back against the criticism.
"He was just there as a human
being, consoling us and giving us condolences," Anchondo said. The
President "wasn't there to be pushing any kind of political agenda."
He and the other members of the family
said they were consoled by the president's presence. The Washington Post, to
their credit, interviewed the family, providing this insight and reporting that
the Anchondos were themselves Trump voters.
What hasn't caught much press was the
fact that the family of the deceased, -- that is, the direct immediately family
of two of the victims of the mass killing, who are now the guardians of that
baby who lives because his parents died -- that family is now
receiving threats.
Those threats are not about their
immigration status, or their ethnicity, but instead for their association with
Trump, and for their participation in that photo.
The brother of the slain couple and
uncle of the injured child told the Houston Chronicle that his family has received death threats
over it.
"We should be coming together as
a country at this time instead of threatening each other with hate
messages," he told the Chronicle. He is obviously correct, to say
the least.
This is the state of our Union this
week.
Every day on social media you will see
partisans become enraged at the idea of criticism going both ways. They tweet
storm and rage, saying things like "don't both sides me" or attempt
to argue that it is actually the people who see wrongdoing on both sides of the
political spectrum who are sophists.
But that is just more of the wrongness
of their partisan fury. The committed edges think they have a cogent argument
about how it is not both sides, or that criticizing both sides is
counterproductive, but it isn't cogent or rational, it is irrational and
emotional and pigheaded and wrong.
And that sense of absolute rightness,
of being absolutely on the right team, is exactly how you end up writing hate
mail to the family of a slain young couple who were back-to-school shopping out
of your fury at their posing for a picture with the President.
The longer that kind of hatred is
allowed to masquerade as virtue, and protected by the equally partisan media,
the worse things will get. If indeed it is possible to conceive of anything
worse than deciding to send a threat such as these.
Caleb Howe, The Blaze, August 11, 2019
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