The Otherization Of Jon Husted

       Jon Husted has spent the past twenty years as an Ohio state lawmaker,

...serving as Ohio Secretary of State, Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and a member of the Ohio Senate before he was appointed as Lieutenant Governor in 2019 by Governor Mike Dewine.

   This past year, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Jon Husted has picked up the gauntlet with Governor Dewine and side by side (formerly side by side by side with Ohio Health Director Dr. Amy Acton until Dr. Acton was driven from the job by extreme harassment from hostile right-wing protesters) ,

...the two men have risen to the challenge of keeping the Ohio citizenry safe, informed and updated on the latest news and developments in our state on the COVID pandemic, following the science, making the hard and often unpopular decisions, in any case putting the health and welfare of Ohioans above any political considerations.
     However Jon Husted is a Republican and co-chair with Governor Dewine for Trump's re-election campaign in Ohio.
       And so the day before yesterday when Trump showed up for a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton,

...it should have been normal for Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted to be at the rally to whip up enthusiasm and excitement prior to Trump's on-stage appearance among his fellow Republicans, all of whom were there for the same purpose as he was: to show their love for Donald Trump.
       Or so must Jon Husted have believed. But Husted made the mistake of likewise believing that he could show support for Trump as well as for fighting the spread of COVID-19 by encouraging the packed, mostly maskless crowd to wear masks, which, as everyone knows, Donald Trump is as against as he is other anti-pandemic measures, such as social distancing at his campaign rallies.  

      ​And if Donald Trump is against something, so are his followers, rabidly. The outcome of Husted's mistake in not realizing this was dreadful to watch.
      Husted stepped onto the rally stage modeling a "Trump 2020" mask. "I'm trying to make masks in America great again and I've got President Trump's masks," he said.

     The crowd booed.​ Husted must have believed  - most naively - that he could win over the crowd by showing them an assortment of masks - apparently available for purchase at the rally venue - with Trump logos on them. He was further booed and jeered. "Hang on, hang on," he said good-naturedly, holding up the blue mask, the red mask, the MAGA mask to more boos.  "Hang on, I know we don't like wearing 'em, hang on, hang on, I get it."

      But the co-chairman of the Ohio Trump campaign was bombing miserably with these 
Team Trump zealots, and the more Husted tried to convince them that he was on their team, the more they booed, jeered, and mocked him. They shouted him down, gave him thumbs down, yelled at him, among other things, "Tyrant," "Get off the stage," and "Not gonna work," when he quipped that they could tell people they were trying to save the country by wearing a Trump mask. The hostility from this crowd was palpable and brazen. Husted was even being booed by children. Here are a couple of videos of Jon Husted desperately trying to win the approval of the crowd:
      https://twitter.com/i/status/1308147051495071745

​https://twitter.com/GeoffWSYX6/status/1308139566558261253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308139566558261253%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fabc6onyourside.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdewine-husted-respond-to-booing-at-president-trump-rally-in-vandalia

     Watching those videos is excruciating. Not so much because the Lieutenant Governor is being heckled and insulted by a rude, rowdy crowd; but because he tries so hard to put on a show of laughing off their mockery and insults, as if their obvious dislike of him is really all in good fun, he and they are all Trump supporters, after all. And because they were Trump supporters, he had no choice but to suck up to them. And they, in return, did all they could think of to humiliate him, to make it clear to him that he was not one of them, to publicly otherize him.
     And so our Lieutenant Governor, who was attempting to support both the wearing of protective face masks and Donald Trump learned a biblical lesson: that a man cannot serve two masters, for he will either love the one and hate the other, or hate the one and love the other. 
        Which begs the question:  The health and well-being of Ohioans or Donald Trump...which masters Jon Husted's heart?    

References:
​https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/09/ohio-lt-gov-jon-husted-heckled-during-trump-campaign-event-in-dayton.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/ohio-governor-jon-husted-booed-trump-rally-mask-mandate-b520484.html

https://twitter.com/GeoffWSYX6/status/1308139566558261253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308139566558261253%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fabc6onyourside.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdewine-husted-respond-to-booing-at-president-trump-rally-in-vandalia

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/politics/donald-trump-ohio-jon-husted-mask/index.html