An op-ed published Friday by NBC News actually argues that voting for Trump is unconstitutional since white voters are supposedly motivated in part by racism.  Of course, the premise of the fact-free op-ed would have to significantly improve to be ridiculous.

“If the Trump era has taught us anything, it’s that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminalsregularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke,” Noah Berlatsky incorrectly argued.

“Trump made it clear in his campaign that ‘Make America Great Again’ meant that America was greater when white people’s power was more sweeping and more secure,” he falsely claimed. “White voters approve of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.”

He did? I must have missed that part. Everyone missed that part since it never happened

Berlatsky added:

Some politicians deny the evidence, no doubt because they don’t want to alienate white voters, including prejudiced ones. Other commentators try to parse whether Trump’s racism will be a winning strategy in 2020. Terry Smith, a visiting professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, offers a different response in his new book, “Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box.” Rather than excuse racist voters or try to figure out how to live with their choices, he argues that racist voting is not just immoral, but illegal. The government, Smith says, has the ability, and the responsibility, to address it.

This sounds radical. But Smith argues that it’s in line with the Constitution and with years of court rulings. For example, Smith points out that racist appeals in union elections are illegal and that an election in which one side uses racist appeals can be invalidated by the National Labor Relations Board. Similarly, in the 2016 case Peña v. Rodriguez, the Supreme Court ruled that when a juror expresses overt bigotry, the jury’s verdict should be invalidated.

Translation: If you’re a white conservative who supports Trump, you’re automatically a racist and should not be allowed to vote because some pinhead professor says so.

There’s more to this flaming pile of stupid,  but you get the point.

Twitchy correctly noted:

We don’t recall cries of “racism” from the Left when Bill Clinton said “make America great again” during his 1991 presidential campaign announcement.

Neither do we.

 

Former president Jimmy Carter used some combination of the phrase repeatedly during his victory speech in 1976.“It’s time to tap the tremendous strength and vitality and idealism and hope and patriotism and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood in this country to a  unified nation to make it great once again,” he urged. Sadly, he drove the country the other way.

“Let’s make America great again” was used in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. He kept his promise

And as we mentioned above, one other former President NBC now says is associated with white nationalism … Bill Clinton.

Oh, and there was an unsuccessful candidate in 2008 whose husband used the phrase in commercials promoting her presidential campaign. He says, “it’s time for another comeback time to make America great again. I know Hillary’s the one who can do it.”

And at the end of the radio commercial, Hillary Clinton said, “I’m Hillary Clinton, a candidate for president and I approve this message.” So were any votes for Hillary against Barack Obama racists?

As one might expect, the Twitterverse was not happy with the NBC op-ed.

Does the phrase, “by any means necessary” ring a bell?

What’s next?  Will they suggest killing Trump voters?  Some unhinged leftists, after all, have already suggested that.

 

Indeed.

Our response?  Well…you may have guessed it already

Much of this post was first seen at Conservative Firing Line