I subscribe to a number of Substacks, and most of them have much in common. They pretty much all agree on what’s wrong with having a mendacious, malevolent, amoral, corrupt, vengeful, venal. autocratic huckster and con man in the White House, well served by his Cabinet collection of sycophants, liars, election deniers, incompetents, venue-seeking, Constitutional ignoramouses, security risks, misogynists, barn-burners, heath cranks, and drunks.
Those of us who have any real idea of what this country was founded to be, who believe that our Constitution is worth maintaining, who understand that we are both the inheritors of and the participants in the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex experiment in human society and government ever attempted know all that. So the problem is not Trump, per se, but rather those who are so careless or ignorant or disdainful or dismissive of those beliefs that they thought Trump was the solution to whatever problems they thought were affecting them.
The Democratic Party with its obsession with Identity politics, its idiotic refusal to hold Joe Biden to his promise of being a one term president, and its own nutty infighting certainly do share some measure of the blame for our predicament. But they did not pull the voting booth levers to put Trump in office. It wasn’t their Senators who refused to convict Trump after January 6th and all his surrounding machinations. It wasn’t their Representatives and Senators who continue to enable TRump’s attempts to create the Disunited States of Trump.
The Kirk assassination is an abomination, and anyone suggesting that he deserved to be killed is as ignorant of the meaning of America as is the shooter himself, whatever his specific motivations turn out to be.
But I’m sorry. When the President of the United States himself encourages, enables, incites, and pardons political vioience so long as it is committed on his behalf, and his supporters do nothing about it,it is time and well past time to remember the Biblical adage ‘ “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind"
I subscribe to a number of Substacks, and most of them have much in common. They pretty much all agree on what’s wrong with having a mendacious, malevolent, amoral, corrupt, vengeful, venal. autocratic huckster and con man in the White House, well served by his Cabinet collection of sycophants, liars, election deniers, incompetents, venue-seeking, Constitutional ignoramouses, security risks, misogynists, barn-burners, heath cranks, and drunks.
Those of us who have any real idea of what this country was founded to be, who believe that our Constitution is worth maintaining, who understand that we are both the inheritors of and the participants in the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex experiment in human society and government ever attempted know all that. So the problem is not Trump, per se, but rather those who are so careless or ignorant or disdainful or dismissive of those beliefs that they thought Trump was the solution to whatever problems they thought were affecting them.
The Democratic Party with its obsession with Identity politics, its idiotic refusal to hold Joe Biden to his promise of being a one term president, and its own nutty infighting certainly do share some measure of the blame for our predicament. But they did not pull the voting booth levers to put Trump in office. It wasn’t their Senators who refused to convict Trump after January 6th and all his surrounding machinations. It wasn’t their Representatives and Senators who continue to enable TRump’s attempts to create the Disunited States of Trump.
The Kirk assassination is an abomination, and anyone suggesting that he deserved to be killed is as ignorant of the meaning of America as is the shooter himself, whatever his specific motivations turn out to be.
But I’m sorry. When the President of the United States himself encourages, enables, incites, and pardons political vioience so long as it is committed on his behalf, and his supporters do nothing about it,it is time and well past time to remember the Biblical adage ‘ “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind"