Our instinct would have been to let the feuding Democrats continue to tear themselves asunder, each new utterance cementing in the minds of Middle America that the party is far out of touch with reality.
But that’s not President Donald Trump, whose habit of picking a scab and watching it bleed can be disconcerting, frustrating and worrisome.
So he not surprisingly couldn’t leave alone his recent comments suggesting four congresswomen – three of whom were born in the U.S. – go back to their “original countries.”
“The Democratic Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party,” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. “Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the Fword, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills.”
He’s right about all of that, of course, but the “original countries” comment – which itself was taken out of context – was unnecessary and over the top.