The New York Times‘s so-called “conservative” columnist David French has claimed in a new opinion editorial that supporting Donald Trump is worse than supporting slavery. French’s bizarre op-ed essentially argues that slavers did not know any better, while MAGA supporters should, oddly comparing the forced ownership of human beings to supporting America First policies.
The article, entitled ‘Behold, MAGA Man‘, was published on Sunday in the paper still owned by the descendants of slave owners. In addition to its murky moral history in America, the New York Times previously hyped Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
French himself is a neoconservative who still defends the Iraq War, supports gay marriage, and is regularly vaccinated and boosted. He wrote on Sunday: “One of the persistent debates in American life centers on how strictly we should judge the sins of our national past… Were those people who owned slaves or broke faith with Native Americans or passed the Chinese Exclusion Act merely products of their time? MAGA Men and MAGA Women will not have that excuse. They know there is a different way.”
Characterizing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a “MAGA Man”, French accused the “post-9/11 American hero” of devolving into a cipher for Trump. He also strongly implied he supports the $148 million judgment against Giuliani in the case of two election workers accused of ballot fiddling.
“A MAGA Man such as Giuliani supplements his lies with rage,” French claimed. “To watch him pushing Trump’s election lies was to watch a man become unglued with anger.”