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Adam Zyglis is the staff editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News. He’s also a heartless monster.
Zyglis, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner, is facing national outrage after he published a cartoon in the Buffalo News that mocks the drowning of a Trump supporter in the Texas Hill Country.
“Historic flash floods have struck Southern Texas, with at least 82 deaths and dozens more missing,” a caption for the cartoon read.
The cartoon showed a man wearing an iconic red MAGA hat being swept away by floodwaters while holding a “HELP” sign.
The man hollered, “Gov’t is the problem not the solution,” just before he drowned.
Defenders of Zyglis will no doubt say that the job of a cartoonist is to be outrageous and provocative – to provoke people’s emotions. Well, mission accomplished.
“It’s shameful and disgusting that in the wake of tragedy, the left’s first instinct is to lie and politicize a disaster to target their political opponents,” the White House said in a statement to Newsweek. “The Trump Administration is grateful to the first responders who sprang into action to save hundreds of lives during this catastrophe and will continue to help the great state of Texas in their recovery efforts.”
Local Republicans, too, were rightfully horrified by the cartoon.
Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Michael Kracker wrote, “@TheBuffaloNews ran a cartoon mocking Texas families who lost loved ones in a tragedy, just because they might’ve voted Republican. Twisted, vile, and shameful. They owe those families an apology and should pull this filth immediately.”
The cold, hard truth is that Trump supporters have been dehumanized by the national media and the Democrat party. They’ve called us deplorables, bitter, irredeemable and the dregs of society. They’ve made it culturally acceptable to bloody and bully anyone wearing a red MAGA hat.
And that’s how the Left can justify mocking and cheering when children of Trump supporters are swept away by the raging floodwaters.