After January 6th, there is no excuse left for anyone to vote for Trump. It doesn't mean voting for Kamala Harris; but one cannot both owe allegiance to the Constitution and vote for Trump. It is seldom that life offers such a clear cut choice.
Yet, if we are lucky, maybe only 47% of the voters will choose Trump. It could be more.
After January 6th, there is no excuse left for anyone to vote for Trump. It doesn't mean voting for Kamala Harris; but one cannot both owe allegiance to the Constitution and vote for Trump. It is seldom that life offers such a clear cut choice.
Yet, if we are lucky, maybe only 47% of the voters will choose Trump. It could be more.
In this regard, I wish the thinkers on the Bulwark will take up the question of "what does it mean to love the country" ? if one cannot have any respect for 47% of its voters?
Oh, I'm not going to waste any mental energy hating these 47%. But what meaning remains in this "United States of America" where an undocumented immigrant threatened with deportation at any moment has more love for its founding principles than someone with generations of ancestry here? How is one to navigate this contradiction?
Many of those people are gullible enough to believe the "rigged election" mythology, or pretty much anything Trump says.
But others are not stupid. They have the mental capacity to recognize that Trump is a malignant narcissist who preemptively delegitimizes any contest who loses; who imbibed the Roy Cohn philosophy of "Always claim victory, never admit defeat; attack, attack, attack "; who claims that whatever does not go his way is unfair and "corrupt." Those people CHOOSE to defend and endorse him nonetheless, because they see him as a useful weapon against their ideological enemies - regardless of how much damage he does to American institutions, which they have come to label as "corrupt" anyway.
After January 6th, there is no excuse left for anyone to vote for Trump. It doesn't mean voting for Kamala Harris; but one cannot both owe allegiance to the Constitution and vote for Trump. It is seldom that life offers such a clear cut choice.
Yet, if we are lucky, maybe only 47% of the voters will choose Trump. It could be more.
In this regard, I wish the thinkers on the Bulwark will take up the question of "what does it mean to love the country" ? if one cannot have any respect for 47% of its voters?
Oh, I'm not going to waste any mental energy hating these 47%. But what meaning remains in this "United States of America" where an undocumented immigrant threatened with deportation at any moment has more love for its founding principles than someone with generations of ancestry here? How is one to navigate this contradiction?
Many of those people are gullible enough to believe the "rigged election" mythology, or pretty much anything Trump says.
But others are not stupid. They have the mental capacity to recognize that Trump is a malignant narcissist who preemptively delegitimizes any contest who loses; who imbibed the Roy Cohn philosophy of "Always claim victory, never admit defeat; attack, attack, attack "; who claims that whatever does not go his way is unfair and "corrupt." Those people CHOOSE to defend and endorse him nonetheless, because they see him as a useful weapon against their ideological enemies - regardless of how much damage he does to American institutions, which they have come to label as "corrupt" anyway.
"What does it mean to love the country if one cannot have any respect for 47% of its voters?“
Excellent question.