The Contradictions of Trump

Let me get this straight.  The Trumperor says he does not condone violence and he also says he prefers the good old days because a protester would have been carried out on a stretcher.  I'll spare you the video of the Trumperor saying he will pay the legal bills of any of the attendees at one of his rallies who punch protesters who were planning to throw tomatoes at him.

The Trumperor claims to get along with everyone.  That he's a "nice guy" and that everyone loves him.  Nice guys don't use insults.  Nice guys don't refer to their rivals as "Little Marco."  Nice guys don't talk about blood coming out of the eyes of a woman they can't handle in a debate setting.

However the biggest contradiction is the Trumperor and his views on freedom of speech.  He has said for the record he wants to limit the free expression of the media, of journalists.  He demands the right to his own freedom of speech during his rallies.  But he has absolutely no regard for the free speech rights of those who want to protest his campaign.  Free speech includes the right to protest.  It includes the right to burn the U. S. flag, no matter how horrific some will find that action.  It includes the right of the KKK to hold events.  Those who oppose the KKK have every right to PEACEFULLY protest those events. 

Students at Cal State University Los Angeles went too far in their protests of a speech held on campus.  The speaker was an extreme conservative whose rhetoric isn't easy to listen to.  Carrying signs outside the location would have been fine.  Standing in the venue in protest without violence would have been fine.  But pulling a fire alarm went too far.

So how is it that Donald Trump, the Trumperor wants the right to say whatever he wants at his rallies, but no one else there has any free speech right to protest whatsoever?  Just doesn't add up, much like the numbers in any of Trump's proposals for our nation's future.

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