Article Critique

The article I chose to critique is A Vote forTrump is a Vote for bigotry by Dean Obeidallah, written on CNN Political Op-Eds. The audience for this piece could be anyone really, conservative, liberal, democrat or republican. This article is for anyone wanting to gain more knowledge about Donald Trump’s offensive actions and comments. The argument here is that there are so many people supporting Trump but in the same sense it’s as Dean says in the article if you support Trump you “support his sexist, bigoted and racist views.”

                       One of Dean’s first claims is a comparison of Trump and Hitler by stating that people who don’t like Trumps view of women but think he will be good for government is “It's akin to saying, "I supported Hitler for his tax plan." I found this statement to be very true and likeable but I did not like how he immediately states that he is not comparing the two figures when he so obviously just did. He does go on through to point out several different incidents of Trumps truly intolerable acts. One in particular stuck out to me in which Trump mocked a reporter Charles Krauthammer, “Trump despicably ridiculed Krauthammer, a man paralyzed from the waist down, as "a guy that can't buy a pair of pants." Another incident similar to this one and Dean describes as the most alarming “came in November at a Trump rally in Birmingham, Alabama, when a Black Lives Matter protester interrupted the candidate. The GOP front-runner called on the crowd to get the man out of there. His supporters then beat up the man, reportedly calling the black protester "the N-word" and a "monkey." Shockingly the next day Trump defended those actions, saying, "Maybe he should have been roughed up." I think this is one of the best examples to help wake people up the injustices this man has committed.

                       Ultimately I like how he outlined his argument and great use of facts, which have all been public. I would like to have seen maybe a little more about what Trumps backers (both political and general public) have to say about his outlandish comments and actions. He does ask questions in the article on which of the subjects his backers would mostly agree with but doesn’t go forth with this and actually interview them. I hope this article can make the American public see how much of an intolerance this man actually is.