In my wanderings through the limitless expanses of the internet I recently chanced upon one Rick Wilson, a political strategist, media consultant and Florida based Republican who nevertheless absolutely loathed Donald Trump. If it seems absurd that I should cite a Republican as an example of the sort of childish antics typically manifest on the Left, I must point out he was a frequent pre-election guest of MSNBC and CNN where he was cherished for his anti-Trump rants, Don Lemon clearly delighted when he labeled Trump supporters a bunch of illiterate, gullible “rubes.”
In the spring of 2020 Wilson discovered that Domino’s Pizza, in response to a tweet by Trump’s Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany in which she expressed her delight with its product, had posted an expression of appreciation. Wilson’s reaction was to denounce Domino’s, declaring: “You just killed your brand!” When the pizza giant asked why the hell he was so outraged by tweets made in 2012, well before Kayleigh had become Trump’s representative, Wilson was no doubt duly embarrassed. But that’s not the point. Even if the exchange of tweets has occurred in 2020, what right had one arrogantly convinced of his intellectual superiority to indict a business enterprise simply because it had reached out to a customer of an opposing political perspective. Was Wilson’s indictment of Domino’s in any way rational or the outburst of one with the maturity of a twelve year old ? There are no doubt mindless Neanderthals lurking within the ranks of the Right but the dozens of “conservative” commentators to whom I subscribe deal in rational argument while Wilson, a “media consultant” and welcome visitor to MSNBC and CNN, would seem to be of the childish, repugnant and utterly divisive opinion that no Democrat should even smile in the direction of one of those effing idiot Trump supporters. As I know both Joe and Kamala share the same opinion of the 70 million or so who did not vote for them, I must fight to keep from gagging when they piously talk of their crusade to bring their country together.