Trump Supporters Push Back: ‘We Are All Tired Of Being Called Racists’

Following President Trump's packed-out rally of nearly 18,000 people in Ohio Thursday night, The Atlantic published a piece by Elaina Plott Friday addressing what the report suggests is an increasingly prominent sentiment among Trump supporters: "They are tired of being called racists."

After detailing Trump's recent criticisms of "The Squad" and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings — which Democrats and their allies in the left-leaning media quickly branded "racist" — Plott presents a notable quote from Donald Trump Jr., who revved up the crowd Thursday in part by addressing the concerted effort to villify his father, and implictly his father's supporters. Racism is still an issue, Trump Jr. stressed, but the Left's habit of resorting to cries of "racism" makes a "mockery" of the term and ultimately "hurt[s] those that are actually afflicted by it."

"It's sad that using 'racism' has become the easy button of left-wing politics," the president's eldest son told the crowd overspilling the nearly 18,000-capacity U.S. Bank Arena Thursday. "...Because guess what? It still is an issue ... But by making a mockery of it by saying every time you can’t win a fight — 'Oh! We’re just gonna push the button! It’s racist' —you hurt those that are actually afflicted by it. People hear it, they roll their eyes, and they walk on. And that’s a disgrace, and that's what you’ve been given in the identity politics of the Left."

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