“The U.S. Is Seeing a Massive Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes,” reported
New York Magazine’sThe Cut on Monday, with the predictable analysis: It’s all Trump’s fault. That intrepid warrior for freedom, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Ditzy), known to the legions who follow all the episodes of her superheroine adventures as AOC, was eager to believe. There was just one problem: reality intervened.
“Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence,” reported The Cut’s Madeleine Aggeler, apparently with a straight face. You see, “Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff
embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric early on in the pandemic, repeatedly referring to COVID-19 as the ‘China virus’ and the ‘Wuhan virus.’”