John. How you feeling these days about your fever dream regarding Trump? Now a 55 year old firefighter is dead and kids have lost their father. An apology is insufficient, if you were even considering one. A proper response would be to hand over your wealth and pension to the Comperatore family, and live a life of poverty.
I think that is a bit harsh. There is absolutely no reason to believe the attempted assassin/successful murderer had ever heard of John, much less that he watched that video. But at the very least, John will need to write a NY Times column explaining why he was wrong to call for somebody to try and kill the former president and yes apologize to Trump, the Comperatore family, and the other victims. Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing and I fear that it caused John to say something that could seriously injure his career.
Given our current cancel culture, it won't be long before some people start calling on the NY Times and Columbia University to fire John. John has said in the past that he didn't care about not having tenure, but he may feel differently now. His bosses at the Times and Columbia most likely understand why John said what he did and I am sure some were hoping it would happen. But Columbia administrators are already under a lot of fire over anti-Semitism and may not want to defend John. However, I think efforts to cancel John will be focused primarily on his Times column. I would be shocked if the Times doesn't at least suspend him. They may not allow John's apology to run in the Times.
I am a Republican that despises Donald Trump. I have thought quite a bit about whether I should hope Trump was assassinated. I ultimately decided that the reaction of the sizable minority of the U.S. population (majorities in certain parts of the U.S.) that revere Donald Trump would be worse than a second Trump administration. I also thought innocent bystanders were likely to be hurt in an attempt to kill him. The timing of this attempt could not have been better from Donald Trump's perspective. If that bullet hadn't come so close to killing him, I could believe his campaign was behind it. If Trump does the smart thing and gives a speech that brings Americans together rather than waving the bloody shirt calling for Republicans to "fight to save our country" I don't see a way for Biden to beat him. If Trump can come across as more reasonable than he has appeared in the past, allowing many moderates to wonder if almost being killed changed him for the better, Donald Trump will be our 47th president. Of course, he may still win if he waves the bloody shirt like a madman.
I hope John comes through the firestorm relatively unscathed.
I have tremendous sympathy for the Comperatore family and all of the victims of this shooting. I should have been clearer about that. That man died a hero, but that probably isn't very comforting for his family right now. Our public discourse has become so harsh that people think nothing of wishing violence against politicians, Justices, and other celebrities. Kyle Gass, Jack Black's Tenacious D partner, was presented with a birthday cake on Sunday and his wish was that next time they not miss Trump. That was a joke. John was serious. I don't want his career to be over, but he needs to publicly acknowledge how wrong he was. He needs to do that even if he doesn't believe it.
Totally agree. I do not want John’s career to end. I love his perspective. It’s absolutely interesting. Having said that, I put myself in the shoes of the Comperatore family and I can’t imagine the despair I would feel. People like John, who were promoting this action, need not only to apologize, but they also need to pay reparations to the injured party. Yes, I know, there is little doubt that Crooks was not a subscriber to Loury’s substack, and did not get his marching orders from John. But, there needs to be consequences for this behavior and it does not need to only be John who contributes. How about a gofundme to the Comperatore’s from all those public figures out there who promoted this action, including John?
I have heard many a social scientist say that the greatest failing in people, and so obvious today, is their unwillingness to acknowledge they have been wrong. Yes, PRIDE is a damn good way to describe it. In some, when over developed, in could be called Narcissism. Although I, admittedly, am not a social scientist.
Glenn, I hope you will ask John to go into more detail about what he thinks would happen if the leader of a political movement with millions of devoted followers were assassinated on the way to reelection. Two weeks ago, he called for Trump's assassination, and it almost happened; does he feels personally at risk? Would he if it had succeeded?
It seems to me most of the TDS left don't really accept that millions of their fellow citizens believe strongly in Trump and his goals and feel just as negatively about the Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden types as they do about Trump.
Glenn - you did exactly right, and I commend you for everything you said to John..
Everything, even as I know how you truly feel about Donald Trump.
This is the definition of integrity.
Bravo.
John, you are a typical left-wing cowardly squish. I have lost so much of the respect I had for you. The proof? (JM: "I'm SO SORRY I said it - (sotto voce - "in public !" Did you think we would overlook that bit?)
John, you want to LOOK like a reasonable liberal thinker even as you hope like crazy that someone will "rid me of this troublesome priest." As if that will solve your problem. MAGA is now a multitude.
Now tell us how you truly feel about Trump voters. "Deplorables", " bitter clingers" who value their "guns" and their - yes , " Bibles" (shudder)- who are "resentful" that they lost their jobs to left-wing legislation that entrenched "globalization"., and who now live in hollowed-out small towns where most people die of drug overdoses.
Your thoroughly liberal solution for the dispossessed is to sneer at them.
In defense of the Glenn Show (in light of the attempted assassination of candidate Trump) I think that Glenn did an admirable job of taking John to task for his irrational statements. I said previously, in another comment, that I think that John
should admit that he has TDS. He clearly demonstrates the
symptoms. It is an epidemic and NYC is a hot zone for TDS. Clearly, when John make suck comments in private. He is not getting any “Pushback” from those to whom he is making such comments. They likely suffer TDS also.
As for the use the term “Insurrection” to describe what’s happened on January 6, that was done by design. You cat attempt to impeach Trump for a spontaneous riot - or a demonstration that’s gotten out of hand. I was puzzled upon hearing all of the mainstream media talking heads using the term - all as if reading from the same script - to describe something that clearly was not an insurrection. The Dems were all more than happy to take the bait and join the chorus.
I hope you are not too disappointed today John that the assassin you hoped for failed. I am holding back what I want to say to you and so many others who have expressed violence and death. I am repulsed by you and them. Thank you Glenn for exposing this kind of thought out in the open.
Besides the troubling assassination remarks, John has also has advanced the "they wanted to overturn an election" argument. Glen pushes back, of course. To overturn democracy the bully pulpit is not enough. You need the instruments of power behind you, and for an attempt to be worthy of note, you need at least some fraction of them.
What actually happened was a riot, true, that fizzed out, also true. As a new citizen observing, I was supremely unimpressed - no threat to democracy from this bunch, I thought.
It is also true if that if Trump felt the 'deep state', the elite class, actively worked against him, he was correct. Obviously. John's desire that he be taken out is not unique - many actually expected the deep state to do just that - I have encountered this argument in person.
"And so" (to use a John-ism) it is not enough to "want" things, as if we even know what Trump expected or wanted to happen as far as the riot is concerned. The absurd overreaction from the left is that this actually was a close call. Now that's what I call undermining faith in institutions.
It is as if I jumped off a cliff waving my arms, and the response was: "Oh my God, he wanted to fly and he almost got away with breaking the laws of nature".
I say this as someone who has voted only once in this country, and it was against Trump (now I am walking away from the whole mess).
I was put off by the same things that made everyone else wonder how you got a presidential candidate like this. I think I understand things better now in that he filled a void carved out by elites. I also think it possible to concede that he in some areas confronted problems more honestly than possible inside the hot air balloon that the collective left has become. So a not uncommon take in these forums.
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.
Imagine if someone DID take Trump out. Of COURSE some MAGA maniac with a gun will seek retribution. Heck, there will be hundreds of volunteers! He's their Saviour!
So then if Biden or someone on their side gets taken out, we will then have another civil war. Count on it.
No, not a good look for McWhorter at all. But if memory serves he was on the same page years ago when he supported extra-Constitutional means for getting rid of Trump. But then he's a linguist, not a political scientist or a student of history. So in the words of Jesus (more or less) let me say: "Father, forgive John, for he knows not what he is suggesting."
OTOH, Trump does say some really stupid shit. And I still prefer him to Biden (a low bar).
What do I conclude:
John has flaws, just like the rest of us. Take what John says about Trump with a grain of salt, continue to value his other immense contributions to the conversation, and move on.
move on? What if someone on the right, like Chris Rufo said that “the leftist ideology needs to be stopped and Biden has enacted it across the federal gov't. Someone must kill him because he can't be elected again.” You think people or mainstream media would move on?
I do believe people have freedom of speech. However, there is a line at which such speech should have consequences. If John was a conservative and said this about Biden, he would lose his job and be publicly shamed. There should be consequences to what John has said. In this political climate and the precipice at which this expereiment stands.... his University should act.... but we all know that wont happen
Agreed completely about how the left would respond. But IN THIS CASE, I don't see any strategic value in playing tit-for-tat. John's said what he's going to say, and I don't see any value in attempting to drive him away, or make vague threats of "cancellation". TGS is stronger with him than without him, and that's where the subject has to end.
He would do just as well, perhaps even better, with a more intellectually honest sparring partner. John will still be his friend, but he ought not sully the integrity of TGS with his presence any longer.
This is not a tit-for-tat situation. If there was an academic on the right that publicly stated he wished that someone would kill Biden (or any other elected official); and also admitted that he has said this in private, I think the proper course would be for that University at a bare minimum investigate and at a bare minimum reprimand that person. These academic elites are in a position of power and influence. In case you have not noticed, our gov’t institutions are at a crossroads. Those academics advocating for political violence should be cautioned about escalating this country down this path.
Its not even funny how blind the elite academics on the left are to the situation. John and others claim that Trump must be stopped at all costs because he will destroy our democratic institutions. Well, guess what, Trump was removed from office and the institutions survived. Now, in order to keep Trump from becoming president, the left is willing to destroy those very institutions they are claiming Trump will destroy if he becomes president.
If John and others like him are willing to bend the law and even wish that someone would kill a political opponent, why should we believe them when they say there were no election problems in 2020. They are so desperate that I think John and many on the left would be ok with rigging this current election if it meant Trump would lose. Rigging an election is easier than killing a former president.
As long as the left and academic elites on the left continue to espouse actions that actually do threaten our democracy, they should be called out for it and argued against…John has been talking like this for a long time now. I am not trying to run him off the show. There are some points and opintions that i value greatly from John. But his words and opinions are way out of whack in this front.
His words were along the lines of “I wish, well not me but someone would just…” and then he trailed off. I and many others knew what he was about to say but he stopped himself. It’s brief and I don’t even think Glenn caught… but many of us did. I will have to listen again to see if they deleted it. I don’t think Glenn would delete without mentioning he did that. Either they did it because they don’t want to continue it to be aired… or you tube forced them to edit or they would remove the episode. They have given that ultimatum to Glenn before.
“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. “ Glenn Loury
This statement says more about The Democrat party , John McWhorter, and yes perhaps even Glenn Loury then the nation as a whole. The “ Bad Evil things” we are told Trump did are simply opinions of the media and democrats than true facts. The current Biden and former (Obama) administration has done more damage to America (IMHO) than anything Trump has done. I could list facts but I do not think it would help those who already have “ their truth”.
John McWhorter has sold himself to the NYT. Can you reconvene earlier than scheduled and put out a special on the debate? We should give John time to recant about who the greater evil is - Trump or whoever is currently acting President of the United States of America. There was a silent coup sometime between 4/25/2019 that is still ongoing to this very moment. A corpse was installed as President and the reality is we have no idea who is actually running the country because it's clearly not JRB. It all feels like it's a committee running things and they have a media pumping out propaganda unchecked. When the 2024 nominee for the DNC is announced it won't be Biden and the second silent coup will have commenced.
"It all feels like it's a committee running things and they have a media pumping out propaganda unchecked."
It really does. We've been fed so many outrageous falsehoods the past 10-15 years. Citizens were literally forced to say man pretending to be a woman is a "woman in every sense of the word." Now add "Joe is a-okay" to the list of bald-faced lies. This nation is sick.
But John said one thing right, he warned: Biden shouldn't debate Trump.
And people have to remember: that level of Biden's performance was possible only after his TOTAL immersion in a one-week preparation. And also it will be useful for people to watch an after-debate fact check CNN did on a multitude of Joe Biden's lies.
One thing missing from the commentary here, I think, has to do with how utterly catastrophic an assassination of Trump would be for this country if it were to happen. Does John not understand how much worse it would be in America if it did happen? And I say that independent of whether Trump would be a bad or good president. The divisions and hatreds would be vastly intensified.
John McWhorter should be prosecuted. It is a crime to call for the assassination of a President. It is NOT free-speech to encourage violence. An academic suggesting that murder is a good solution indicates indecent, immoral bankruptcy and intellectual vacancy. The 'black guys' image on the Glenn Show has been destroyed and black stereotypical perspectives can now be applied to John McWhorter. John should resign.
John. How you feeling these days about your fever dream regarding Trump? Now a 55 year old firefighter is dead and kids have lost their father. An apology is insufficient, if you were even considering one. A proper response would be to hand over your wealth and pension to the Comperatore family, and live a life of poverty.
I think that is a bit harsh. There is absolutely no reason to believe the attempted assassin/successful murderer had ever heard of John, much less that he watched that video. But at the very least, John will need to write a NY Times column explaining why he was wrong to call for somebody to try and kill the former president and yes apologize to Trump, the Comperatore family, and the other victims. Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing and I fear that it caused John to say something that could seriously injure his career.
Given our current cancel culture, it won't be long before some people start calling on the NY Times and Columbia University to fire John. John has said in the past that he didn't care about not having tenure, but he may feel differently now. His bosses at the Times and Columbia most likely understand why John said what he did and I am sure some were hoping it would happen. But Columbia administrators are already under a lot of fire over anti-Semitism and may not want to defend John. However, I think efforts to cancel John will be focused primarily on his Times column. I would be shocked if the Times doesn't at least suspend him. They may not allow John's apology to run in the Times.
I am a Republican that despises Donald Trump. I have thought quite a bit about whether I should hope Trump was assassinated. I ultimately decided that the reaction of the sizable minority of the U.S. population (majorities in certain parts of the U.S.) that revere Donald Trump would be worse than a second Trump administration. I also thought innocent bystanders were likely to be hurt in an attempt to kill him. The timing of this attempt could not have been better from Donald Trump's perspective. If that bullet hadn't come so close to killing him, I could believe his campaign was behind it. If Trump does the smart thing and gives a speech that brings Americans together rather than waving the bloody shirt calling for Republicans to "fight to save our country" I don't see a way for Biden to beat him. If Trump can come across as more reasonable than he has appeared in the past, allowing many moderates to wonder if almost being killed changed him for the better, Donald Trump will be our 47th president. Of course, he may still win if he waves the bloody shirt like a madman.
I hope John comes through the firestorm relatively unscathed.
All these words, and not one bit of sympathy for the family of the firefighter. God help us all.
I have tremendous sympathy for the Comperatore family and all of the victims of this shooting. I should have been clearer about that. That man died a hero, but that probably isn't very comforting for his family right now. Our public discourse has become so harsh that people think nothing of wishing violence against politicians, Justices, and other celebrities. Kyle Gass, Jack Black's Tenacious D partner, was presented with a birthday cake on Sunday and his wish was that next time they not miss Trump. That was a joke. John was serious. I don't want his career to be over, but he needs to publicly acknowledge how wrong he was. He needs to do that even if he doesn't believe it.
Totally agree. I do not want John’s career to end. I love his perspective. It’s absolutely interesting. Having said that, I put myself in the shoes of the Comperatore family and I can’t imagine the despair I would feel. People like John, who were promoting this action, need not only to apologize, but they also need to pay reparations to the injured party. Yes, I know, there is little doubt that Crooks was not a subscriber to Loury’s substack, and did not get his marching orders from John. But, there needs to be consequences for this behavior and it does not need to only be John who contributes. How about a gofundme to the Comperatore’s from all those public figures out there who promoted this action, including John?
And the other victims of this shooting….
I have heard many a social scientist say that the greatest failing in people, and so obvious today, is their unwillingness to acknowledge they have been wrong. Yes, PRIDE is a damn good way to describe it. In some, when over developed, in could be called Narcissism. Although I, admittedly, am not a social scientist.
Glenn, I hope you will ask John to go into more detail about what he thinks would happen if the leader of a political movement with millions of devoted followers were assassinated on the way to reelection. Two weeks ago, he called for Trump's assassination, and it almost happened; does he feels personally at risk? Would he if it had succeeded?
It seems to me most of the TDS left don't really accept that millions of their fellow citizens believe strongly in Trump and his goals and feel just as negatively about the Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden types as they do about Trump.
Glenn - you did exactly right, and I commend you for everything you said to John..
Everything, even as I know how you truly feel about Donald Trump.
This is the definition of integrity.
Bravo.
John, you are a typical left-wing cowardly squish. I have lost so much of the respect I had for you. The proof? (JM: "I'm SO SORRY I said it - (sotto voce - "in public !" Did you think we would overlook that bit?)
John, you want to LOOK like a reasonable liberal thinker even as you hope like crazy that someone will "rid me of this troublesome priest." As if that will solve your problem. MAGA is now a multitude.
Now tell us how you truly feel about Trump voters. "Deplorables", " bitter clingers" who value their "guns" and their - yes , " Bibles" (shudder)- who are "resentful" that they lost their jobs to left-wing legislation that entrenched "globalization"., and who now live in hollowed-out small towns where most people die of drug overdoses.
Your thoroughly liberal solution for the dispossessed is to sneer at them.
Grow up, you shallow sanctimonious elitist.
In defense of the Glenn Show (in light of the attempted assassination of candidate Trump) I think that Glenn did an admirable job of taking John to task for his irrational statements. I said previously, in another comment, that I think that John
should admit that he has TDS. He clearly demonstrates the
symptoms. It is an epidemic and NYC is a hot zone for TDS. Clearly, when John make suck comments in private. He is not getting any “Pushback” from those to whom he is making such comments. They likely suffer TDS also.
As for the use the term “Insurrection” to describe what’s happened on January 6, that was done by design. You cat attempt to impeach Trump for a spontaneous riot - or a demonstration that’s gotten out of hand. I was puzzled upon hearing all of the mainstream media talking heads using the term - all as if reading from the same script - to describe something that clearly was not an insurrection. The Dems were all more than happy to take the bait and join the chorus.
I hope you are not too disappointed today John that the assassin you hoped for failed. I am holding back what I want to say to you and so many others who have expressed violence and death. I am repulsed by you and them. Thank you Glenn for exposing this kind of thought out in the open.
Besides the troubling assassination remarks, John has also has advanced the "they wanted to overturn an election" argument. Glen pushes back, of course. To overturn democracy the bully pulpit is not enough. You need the instruments of power behind you, and for an attempt to be worthy of note, you need at least some fraction of them.
What actually happened was a riot, true, that fizzed out, also true. As a new citizen observing, I was supremely unimpressed - no threat to democracy from this bunch, I thought.
It is also true if that if Trump felt the 'deep state', the elite class, actively worked against him, he was correct. Obviously. John's desire that he be taken out is not unique - many actually expected the deep state to do just that - I have encountered this argument in person.
"And so" (to use a John-ism) it is not enough to "want" things, as if we even know what Trump expected or wanted to happen as far as the riot is concerned. The absurd overreaction from the left is that this actually was a close call. Now that's what I call undermining faith in institutions.
It is as if I jumped off a cliff waving my arms, and the response was: "Oh my God, he wanted to fly and he almost got away with breaking the laws of nature".
I say this as someone who has voted only once in this country, and it was against Trump (now I am walking away from the whole mess).
I was put off by the same things that made everyone else wonder how you got a presidential candidate like this. I think I understand things better now in that he filled a void carved out by elites. I also think it possible to concede that he in some areas confronted problems more honestly than possible inside the hot air balloon that the collective left has become. So a not uncommon take in these forums.
Thanks! We are all attempting to get a handle on things and need all the help we can get.
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.
Imagine if someone DID take Trump out. Of COURSE some MAGA maniac with a gun will seek retribution. Heck, there will be hundreds of volunteers! He's their Saviour!
So then if Biden or someone on their side gets taken out, we will then have another civil war. Count on it.
No, not a good look for McWhorter at all. But if memory serves he was on the same page years ago when he supported extra-Constitutional means for getting rid of Trump. But then he's a linguist, not a political scientist or a student of history. So in the words of Jesus (more or less) let me say: "Father, forgive John, for he knows not what he is suggesting."
I too was bothered by John's comment.
OTOH, Trump does say some really stupid shit. And I still prefer him to Biden (a low bar).
What do I conclude:
John has flaws, just like the rest of us. Take what John says about Trump with a grain of salt, continue to value his other immense contributions to the conversation, and move on.
move on? What if someone on the right, like Chris Rufo said that “the leftist ideology needs to be stopped and Biden has enacted it across the federal gov't. Someone must kill him because he can't be elected again.” You think people or mainstream media would move on?
I do believe people have freedom of speech. However, there is a line at which such speech should have consequences. If John was a conservative and said this about Biden, he would lose his job and be publicly shamed. There should be consequences to what John has said. In this political climate and the precipice at which this expereiment stands.... his University should act.... but we all know that wont happen
Agreed completely about how the left would respond. But IN THIS CASE, I don't see any strategic value in playing tit-for-tat. John's said what he's going to say, and I don't see any value in attempting to drive him away, or make vague threats of "cancellation". TGS is stronger with him than without him, and that's where the subject has to end.
TGS is great on its own merits.
He would do just as well, perhaps even better, with a more intellectually honest sparring partner. John will still be his friend, but he ought not sully the integrity of TGS with his presence any longer.
This is not a tit-for-tat situation. If there was an academic on the right that publicly stated he wished that someone would kill Biden (or any other elected official); and also admitted that he has said this in private, I think the proper course would be for that University at a bare minimum investigate and at a bare minimum reprimand that person. These academic elites are in a position of power and influence. In case you have not noticed, our gov’t institutions are at a crossroads. Those academics advocating for political violence should be cautioned about escalating this country down this path.
Its not even funny how blind the elite academics on the left are to the situation. John and others claim that Trump must be stopped at all costs because he will destroy our democratic institutions. Well, guess what, Trump was removed from office and the institutions survived. Now, in order to keep Trump from becoming president, the left is willing to destroy those very institutions they are claiming Trump will destroy if he becomes president.
If John and others like him are willing to bend the law and even wish that someone would kill a political opponent, why should we believe them when they say there were no election problems in 2020. They are so desperate that I think John and many on the left would be ok with rigging this current election if it meant Trump would lose. Rigging an election is easier than killing a former president.
As long as the left and academic elites on the left continue to espouse actions that actually do threaten our democracy, they should be called out for it and argued against…John has been talking like this for a long time now. I am not trying to run him off the show. There are some points and opintions that i value greatly from John. But his words and opinions are way out of whack in this front.
His words were along the lines of “I wish, well not me but someone would just…” and then he trailed off. I and many others knew what he was about to say but he stopped himself. It’s brief and I don’t even think Glenn caught… but many of us did. I will have to listen again to see if they deleted it. I don’t think Glenn would delete without mentioning he did that. Either they did it because they don’t want to continue it to be aired… or you tube forced them to edit or they would remove the episode. They have given that ultimatum to Glenn before.
https://open.substack.com/pub/glennloury/p/did-john-really-say-what-i-think?r=4eas3&utm_medium=ios
“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. “ Glenn Loury
This statement says more about The Democrat party , John McWhorter, and yes perhaps even Glenn Loury then the nation as a whole. The “ Bad Evil things” we are told Trump did are simply opinions of the media and democrats than true facts. The current Biden and former (Obama) administration has done more damage to America (IMHO) than anything Trump has done. I could list facts but I do not think it would help those who already have “ their truth”.
John McWhorter has sold himself to the NYT. Can you reconvene earlier than scheduled and put out a special on the debate? We should give John time to recant about who the greater evil is - Trump or whoever is currently acting President of the United States of America. There was a silent coup sometime between 4/25/2019 that is still ongoing to this very moment. A corpse was installed as President and the reality is we have no idea who is actually running the country because it's clearly not JRB. It all feels like it's a committee running things and they have a media pumping out propaganda unchecked. When the 2024 nominee for the DNC is announced it won't be Biden and the second silent coup will have commenced.
"It all feels like it's a committee running things and they have a media pumping out propaganda unchecked."
It really does. We've been fed so many outrageous falsehoods the past 10-15 years. Citizens were literally forced to say man pretending to be a woman is a "woman in every sense of the word." Now add "Joe is a-okay" to the list of bald-faced lies. This nation is sick.
But John said one thing right, he warned: Biden shouldn't debate Trump.
And people have to remember: that level of Biden's performance was possible only after his TOTAL immersion in a one-week preparation. And also it will be useful for people to watch an after-debate fact check CNN did on a multitude of Joe Biden's lies.
https://x.com/WEdwarda/status/1806548181749993783
One thing missing from the commentary here, I think, has to do with how utterly catastrophic an assassination of Trump would be for this country if it were to happen. Does John not understand how much worse it would be in America if it did happen? And I say that independent of whether Trump would be a bad or good president. The divisions and hatreds would be vastly intensified.
John McWhorter should be prosecuted. It is a crime to call for the assassination of a President. It is NOT free-speech to encourage violence. An academic suggesting that murder is a good solution indicates indecent, immoral bankruptcy and intellectual vacancy. The 'black guys' image on the Glenn Show has been destroyed and black stereotypical perspectives can now be applied to John McWhorter. John should resign.