I’m hoping that Trump supporters do so out of ignorance about who he is and what he represents, rather than out of alignment with his persona.
A heretofore benign group of xenophobic, racist, and misogynists has revealed itself. It numbers over 30M voting Americans. It began its slow rise from dormancy on the day Donald Trump took the oath to the office of President of the United States. Its expansion was fueled by campaign-style, fiction-based rhetoric that defined Trump as the sole mender of the “carnage” created by his predecessors. They now present unconditional loyalty to a man who demeans our Country’s institutions while coddling malevolent dictators. This brand of loyalty, combined with dictatorial aspirations of he to which loyalty is paid, presents a clear and present threat to both our Democracy and to the tenants of our Constitution which limit presidential powers.
This group endorses, even inspirits, Trump’s flagrant disregard for the truth, Democracy, human decency, and the rule of law. Its members range from displaced workers to opportunistic Executives, from Evangelicals to White Nationalists, from grassroots town halls to the entire GOP.
I’m having a hard time getting my arms around the dire consequences that arise from empowering this once silent and largely benign faction by a re-elected Donald Trump.
Benjamin Franklin, fresh from signing our Constitution into law was asked:
“What do we have, a republic or a monarchy”
Franklin replied, ‘A republic if you can keep it.’
They stand idly by, even aid and abet its chieftain as he systematically our Republic. If this, the longest-standing, strongest and richest Republic on Earth fails, then who, (and to what end) will replace it?
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