The America of the past is unrecognizable now - Trump did not cause that

Terry Glavin, a National Post comment contributor says that "America is in the throes of a culture war. It’s a country convulsing in an epidemic of mass-shootings, a recrudescence of white racism, and divisions as deep as the depths of the 1960s"

You can read his article at: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-the-america-we-knew-is-gone-and-it-was-gone-before-trump


Nevertheless, Glavin schitzophrenically blows hot and cold at the same time.  He says that old America (as a paragon of democracy, democratic norms and civic decency ) was gone well before Trump arrived on the scene.  Then he claims that it is all the "depraved" Trump's fault because of the damage he has allegedly done to the cause of liberal democracy in the world, and to democratic norms and civic decency in America.

Glavin then goes on about the way Canada and the U. S.  are chronic and failing as democracies.  He also blames these failures on the Democrats, and in Canada, on the Liberals and the other similar left-wing parties.

Interestingly, he alleges that Trump’s leading and loudest detractors are probably afflicted by some strange Pavlovian malady and provides some proofs of the allegations.  He further states that - "America is in the throes of a debilitating culture war and that even if Trump loses the next election there is no telling whether that America will ever return again."

Fairly often Terry Glavin seems to display some common sense, but, like the majority of Canadian fake progressives, Liberals, the NDP and the Greens, as well as the US Democrats, his sense and brain have jellied into tomato aspic on the subject of Trump.  Some call this - Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Immediate proof of that is found in the 2nd last paragraph of his commentary where he accuses Trump of pandering to racists in relation to the invasion of migrants at the U.S. southern border, and in the same breath states the valid reasons why Trump has taken action to deal with the problem.  You can't have it both ways without your head exploding, Terry.  His critical statement about Trump's accurate assessment of Al Sharpton in the 3rd, 4th and 5th last paragraphs, followed by his citing of the indisputable reasons why Sharpton is pretty much what Trumps says his is, also show this weird contradiction and confusion in his thinking processes.

I did however, enjoy much of his commentary where it accurately describes the left-looniness of the US Democrats and compares them to their close relations, the Canadian fake-progressives, especially the federal Liberals and Trudeau.

Elsewhere in his article Glavin makes reference to 'the recrudescence of white racism' but does not support his reference with any facts or evidence, merely calling Trump's immigration and migrant policies racist. 

Trump's concerns about American laws and control over illegal immigration by hundreds of thousands of residents of Latin American countries and Mexico are perfectly legitimate and part of his duty as President to deal with.

To call immigration controls racist is a slander perpetrated by the Democrats, many of whom are crazy enough to want to throw the borders wide open to anyone who wants to come into the U.S. with no over-sight by the government.

Trump's disdain for Democrat opponents like Ilhan Omar when he described a group of them ‘anti-Israel, anti-U.S.A., pro-terrorist’ is justified, and if racism has anything to do with it it is their anti-white racism, and not his.

Once again, where Trump is concerned, Glavin behaves just like the Democrats he chastises when he said: "It is as though Trump’s leading and loudest detractors are afflicted by some strange Pavlovian malady."