This VIRAL video of MAGA is a NEW LOW (seriously, this is bad).
“😔 There’s a concept in the pop-psychology of Sigmund Freud, who got most things wrong, that still holds up: the idea that an unguarded, reflexive moment can reveal what someone actually believes. This week in Las Vegas, a crowd had one of those moments on camera. 👇 At President Trump’s rally at the Red Rock Casino on August 5th, Nevada’s Republican Governor Joe Lombardo paused to honor Officer Austin “Zade” Abdelnabi, a 30-year-old Las Vegas Metro police officer and United States Marine veteran who had been shot and killed in the line of duty two days earlier, ambushed responding to a call about an armed suspect. He left behind a wife, his parents, and three siblings. As Lombardo said the officer’s name, part of the crowd booed. The governor stopped, visibly taken aback, and corrected them: “No, no, we’re not booing him. He’s the officer that passed away here recently.” He then held a moment of silence. Some will say the crowd was simply confused, that they didn’t realize who Abdelnabi was. But listen to the setup. Lombardo’s exact lead-in was, “I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi.” The crowd had just heard a pastor eulogize this man. The room already knew he was a fallen officer being honored. The only new piece of information between that context and the boo was the sound of his last name, a name that reads as Arabic. That’s what the reflex responded to. Commentators across the spectrum drew the obvious conclusion, and the officer’s own department put out a statement mourning a hero the rally crowd had just jeered. This was a “Back the Blue” event. And a fallen officer got booed on reflex the instant his name sounded foreign. It’s a small moment. But small, unguarded moments are exactly the ones that tell you the most. 🇺🇸 📌 SOURCES: 📰 Mediaite: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/were-not-booing-him-nevada-governor-admonishes-trump-rally-crowd-for-jeering-the-name-austin-abdelnabi-a-fallen-police-officer/ 📰 The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-crowd-boos-fallen-cop-austin-zade-abdelnabi-due-to-ethnic-name/ 📰 Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rally-attendee-appears-to-accidentally-boo-dead-vegas-police-officer-12290454 📰 News3LV (local): https://news3lv.com/news/local/were-not-booing-him-jeering-heard-for-fallen-las-vegas-officer-at-trump-event 👇 SUBSCRIBE for daily political takes, LIKE to honor Officer Abdelnabi, and COMMENT: what does a reflex like that tell you? 🤔 #Politics #Nevada #BackTheBlue #LasVegas #PoliticalCommentary #Shorts #Police #Trump #Hypocrisy #Abdelnabi #Accountability #Vegas”
