if you read between
the lines you understand what
someone really means
According to the Collins Online Dictionary, the phrase, “to read between the lines” means:
“If you read between the lines, you understand what someone really means, or what is really happening in a situation, even though it is not said openly.”
In his article, “Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake“, Mr. Sidney Blumenthal outlines some examples of how to read between the lines of Mr. Donald Trump.
Mr. Blumenthal writes:
When Trump says immigration, he means race.
When he says crime, he means race.
When he says communism, socialism, or Democrat, he means race.
When he says America is declining, he means race.
When he says “American First”, he means race.
When he says blood, he means race.
When he says poison, he means race.
When he says race, he means Black people.
When he says race, he means Hispanics.
When he says race, he means Muslims.
And when he says race, he means other white people, too, some less white, less pure, less clean, less acceptable depending on their ancestral origin, than others.
When he says race, he means the replacement theory.
It seems that half of America would understand and agree with what Mr. Blumenthal is trying to point out.
It seems that half of America would understand what and agree with Mr. Trump is trying to say.
You know what scares me … bothers me the most?
The idea that I am clinging too that this election will settle anything.
I think of Mr. Lincoln and his call to the the better angels of our nature.
Those angels left town a long time ago.
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