Some Americans – mostly liberal Democrat leaders – are doing their best to rachet up racial tensions in our nation.

Every policy decision made by President Donald Trump results in him being called a “racist” on CNN, MSNBC, in the New York Times, in the Washington Post and in the House of Representatives.

Similarly, if anyone who dared challenge the liberal policies of Barack Hussein Obama during his eight years in office was labeled a “racist.” The party line was that the only reason anyone could oppose Obama’s socialism was on the basis of race.

Now, the rhetoric is getting even more outlandish.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, is being lambasted because his two great-great-great grandfathers has at least 14 slaves in Alabama in the 1800s.

What?

Mitch McConnell has never owned slaves and has never, never advocated a return to slavery. Yet, he is being condemned because his ancestors – who died way before he was born – owned slaves – a practice that was banned in America in the 1860s. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and his wife had slaveowners in their ancestry. So now O’Rourke, who advocates reparations, has apologized for the “sins of his fathers.”

This is nonsensical.

First, the classic definition of “racism” is a deep-rooted hated of a race other than your own. That is in no way true of President Trump, Mitch McConnell or even O’Rourke.

Secondly, race baiting is a classic tactic of liberals who can’t win arguments based on logic or common values. If they don’t like you, they just label you a racist. These attacks are intensifying as America approaches the 2020 presidential elections. That’s no coincidence.

Obama’s election was supposed to prove that racism has declined in America. Some Democrats, liberals and progressives are doing their dead-level best to make that a presidential issue.