Back in 2016, I was at a bar in Arlington, Virginia, talking to several of my less politically focused friends about the upcoming Presidential election. To one of them, I simply mentioned that I planned to vote for Donald Trump. And then all hell broke loose.
A woman standing next to me, whom I didn’t know, with a malevolent look on her face, strode right up to me, intruding upon my personal space, and angrily demanded that I renounce my support for Trump. She then lectured me about how dangerous he was, calling him a threat to women everywhere and a would-be-authoritarian to boot. Finally, she waited for me to respond. I just looked at her in surprise and told her, in a nice way, to get lost.
That was my first introduction to the left’s “Two Minutes (of) Hate” for Donald Trump.
The concept of “Two Minutes Hate” comes from George Orwell’s famous book, and the movie made…
