For a number of years, my online discussions with liberals have met with a common frustration.  It is this:  two people can hear the exact same thing and yet hear them entirely differently. This became glaringly apparent in this year's presidential election.  Time after time, Donald Trump would say something entirely innocuous – and true – and the left would cry, "racism!" For example, he pointed out that the (effectively) open borders policy of Barack Obama has resulted in an influx of a disproportionate number of rapists and murderers from Mexico, which is demonstrably true.  Yet those on the left heard Trump say that all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Of course, part of the problem is that Trump was speaking without carefully parsing his every word (as most of us do in casual conversation).  Trump's rhetorical naïveté left an opening into which propagandists of the left lunged like hungry wolves upon a...(Read Full Post)