Some thoughts from Scott Adams on both Trump and Obama derangement:
The first rule of communicating is that people only hear what they think you intend to say. They don’t hear what you actually say. If you think someone is a racist, you will perceive their disavowals of racism as too late and too inadequate. If you think someone is not a racist, you might see their statements as politically incorrect and nothing worse. This phenomenon is most pronounced when strong emotions are involved. The topic of racism stirs our strongest emotions. So according to everything we know about brains, we should expect the highest level of hallucinations when racism is the topic. And that is exactly what we observe.
To be clear, racism itself is very real. The hallucination is limited to seeing it under every bed and behind every couch.
It applies to anti-anti-Trump derangement, too. I don’t think that Trump is a racist, but I’m sure a lot of people imagine I do because I think he’s so terrible in many other ways.
Nobody with a brain cell thinks you’re a racist Rand.
You may be focusing on the wrong things?
No Rand said some people might think he thinks Trump is racist, when really he thinks is just all around terrible in a not racist way, which leads to people thinking Trump is racist because one of the ways he is terrible is not being politically considerate in his speech. Not PC, but just not politically shrewd.
Adams is basically a progressive and Trump is a moderate centrist. It is telling how much hate these two people get from the media and the left and it emphasizes how far toward communism the left has moved over the last 17 years.
I think Adams is more libertarian than “progressive.”