My friend John McWhorter is a calm, rational, reasonable guy. So I was truly shocked when he implied some weeks ago that he wished someone would assassinate Donald Trump. I thought maybe John just got carried away in the moment. But in this clip from our most recent conversation, you’ll see him apologize for making the statement without quite taking it back. When even a moderate centrist like John, who is usually so mindful of his language, feels license to talk like this about Trump, we must be in a very dark place as a nation.
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This whole situation just makes me sad. Even though John’s political views do not match mine I have always respected his opinions. I don’t know that will ever be the case again.
John clearly gets most of his information from the Regime media. He is an insider with no intent on becoming an outsider. While he is a contrarian on race and woke issues, there are limits beyond which the gravy train will not go.