My statement on the arrest of the mail bomber

Earlier today a whackjob, Cesar Sayoc, an ex-con who claims to be a Native American, was arrested allegedly mailing bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN's New York offices.

Many in the left-wing media are blaming the actions of Sayoc, an ex-con who is a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, on the president.

Let me ask you something: When Trump was still a reality TV star and someone who was a very vocal critic of Barack Obama, did he say, "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!"

No. US Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made those incendiary remarks about the Trump administration this summer. Name one Democratic leader who denounced Waters for those comments.

Do it. There's a comment section here.

And of course the president, the first Republican commander-in-chief in my lifetime to fight back against the biased mainstream media, never called for attacking Democrats.

Famously Michelle Obama said of opponents of her husband, "When they go low we go high." Earlier this month, Eric Holder, formerly our nation's top law enforcement official, amended that by declaring, "When they go low, we kick them."

Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist group. Okay, maybe you believe that's a stretch. They are certainly intimidating and yes, violent. Name one liberal politician who has condemned Antifa. I don't know of any. Name a Democratic leader who has criticized Holder's hateful rhetoric.

A year-and-half ago a former volunteer for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, James Hodgkinson, stumbled across a baseball field where a congressional team was practicing. Hodgkinson inquired weather it was a Republican or a Democratic squad, when told it was the former, he fetched his gun and started shooting. The GOP House whip, Steve Scalise, was seriously wounded. Also shot were a Capitol police officer, a lobbyist, and a congressional aide.

Even though Democratic leaders afforded on post-inauguration "honeymoon" and were calling for their supporters to "resist" Trump, no GOP leaders, let alone anyone notable from the small conservative media, blamed the Democrats for those shootings. Nor did any of them blame left-wing MSNBC, which Hodgkinson regularly watched.

On the way home from work this evening I listened to Mark Isler, who was filling in for Larry Elder on WIND-AM, a local conservative talk radio station. who said something along these lines, "I get it. Trump is not a perfect package. He says things and does things I wish he wouldn't." But then he added, as I mentioned earlier this this post, "Trump fights back."

John McCain didn't fight back when he was ridiculed in an Obama campaign commercial because he didn't use a computer. The injuries McCain endured when he was tortured by the North Vietnamese made operating a computer very difficult for him. Mitt Romney, didn't fight back when he was wrongly accused of allowing a woman to die of cancer over an insurance issue. The media, for the most part, were along for those misleading and dishonest rides.

Democrats and  their allies in the media still haven't come to terms with a Republican who fights back.

For those of you still angry about Trump's surprise win two autumns ago, up to a point I can empathize. As a Republican in Illinois, my party's victories are few. But rather than dwell upon your differences between "Deplorables" like myself, let's look to the many things all of us have in common, foremost of which is that we live in the greatest nation ever.

It really is.