Trump Derangement fascinates me, I must admit. It is pathological, an example of raw emotions and the desire to be in line with peers, friends and colleagues literally–and I mean literally literally—disconnecting ethics alarms and basic critical thinking skills simultaneously. The phenomenon is important to study because it has done immeasurable damage to the nation and our republic, and promises to do far more before it has run its course.
Ethics Alarms reader and frequent commenter Steve Witherspoon was kind enough to send me this blog entry by Dave Cieslewicz, previously a Democratic mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. His title: “The Damage Trump Has Done to Liberals.” It’s an astounding essay; if you aren’t subject to depression, it is mordantly amusing. Here’s the main thrust:
Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to America. He has undermined our most cherished institutions, destroyed norms of decent behavior, made racism and misogyny acceptable, disregarded facts, lied with impunity and stoked nutty conspiracy theories. And I could go on….The problem is that when the other side is so clearly wrong — ignores or makes up facts or simply lies — it blows apart the desire on the part of moderate liberals like me to be fair to the other guys, to give their arguments a fair consideration and to ask ourselves if they might be right, even just a little.
There is not one substantive fact or piece of evidence supporting any of the accusations against Trump in the entire piece. The article is written by the Trump Deranged for the Trump Deranged: the article begins with the presumption that everything Donald Trump has said, stood for or done is terrible, and all the problems of the nation are his fault. That’s not a case, and it’s not an argument. It is a diatribe. [This post might be a useful reference point as you ponder the writer’s assertions.]
How has Trump undermined “our most cherished institutions”? Who used a majority in the Congress to issue two partisan and unjustified impeachments? Who attacked the Supreme Court and argued for “packing” it? Who tried to use the emergency power of the presidency to exceed Presidential authority? How did Trump make “racism and misogyny acceptable”? That’s too serious an accusation not to present any supporting evidence at all. How has Trump “disregarded facts” and “lied with impunity” more, or even as, egregiously than Cieslewicz’s colleagues? Who told the American public for six years that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election?
What is “the other side” so “clearly wrong” about? Everything, apparently, because, by Cieslewicz’s definition, any position that varies from the Progressive Cant Book is wrong, and so obviously wrong no rebuttal or refutation is necessary. Enforcing immigration laws? Wrong! Letting Congress and the public decide abortion limits rather than unelected judges? Clearly wrong. Upholding the Second Amendment! Wrong! Refusing to punish and censor speech that progressives call hateful? Wrong. Avoiding industry and personal liberty-crippling environmental restrictions that are unlikely to do anything to stem “‘climate change”? Of course wrong. Regarding racial discrimination in hiring, promotions and colleges admissions as unconstitutional? Wrong. Eliminating due process protections of students accused of sexual abuse? Wrong!
“Nutty conspiracy theories?” Like, say the FBI and Justice working with the Clinton Campaign to frame Trump for “collusion”? That “nutty”?
The essay is actually funny, if you have been paying attention and don’t have a closed head injury. “The press has struggled with this [undefined or specified wrongness] since the day Trump became a serious contender for his party’s nomination,” the man writes. “The traditional formula of treating both sides even-handedly just didn’t work with Trump. He did not have a valid point.” The media never treated Trump even-handedly. The New York Times, King of the Mainstream Media hill, announced during the 2016 campaign that it was jettisoning the journalism ethics principle of objectivity to ensure Trump’s defeat. (Tell me more about those “norms,” Dave…) Indeed, the news media had abandoned even-handedness long before Trump, in its fawning over Barack Obama.
Here’s what I can amusing: even while bemoaning the passing of “the old world where you could say that conservatives and Republicans sometimes had a point and that they shared our goals but just had a different way of getting to the same place,” Cieslewicz writes of Trump, “He did not have a valid point.” Not a single valid point! Even Bernie Sanders occasionally has a valid point!
Cieslewicz calls himself center-left, but that’s only plausible because his party has moved so far left and become so unhinged with radical fervor and Trump hatred that it has become unrecognizable. Blaming Trump for that is like blaming conservative speakers on campus for the destruction that speech-opposing students inflict in reaction to them. Donald Trump committed the unpardonable sin of exposing the arrogance and dishonesty of the progressive Democratic establishment and giving disgusted but previously despairing Americans a chance to register their objections, defeating a corrupt woman whom her party assumed would sashee to the White House. The party could have processed the message, a necessary one, and reformed. Instead, it jumped the rails. Trump’s fault!
Everybody Cieslewicz knows and reads agrees, so he doesn’t even have to prove his case. Nobody can argue with ideologues and partisan demagogues like this. They don’t feel the need to argue or make substantive points because it’s all so clear to them.
But Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to America.
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One more thing: people actually PAY to read crap like that? If I produced something that lame for subscription, I’d perish from shame
Reading this standard issue Democrat analysis of Trump made me realize for Democrats Trump is the obverse of Obama while he was campaigning. David Axelrod came up with the brilliant strategy of turning Obama into a blank canvas onto which the faithful and anyone else so inclined could project what they thought he should be. Obama was nothing more than a walking, talking Rorschach test. Trump is similar but he has projected onto him every imaginable leftist criticism. He’s the definitive compendium of unacceptable behavior and being. But it’s all projection. None of these behaviors are observable in Trump. They’re almost all Democrat behaviors in response to, gasp, Hillary not ascending to her rightful place as the continuation of eternal Democrat hegemony. Damnedest thing I’ve ever seen. And it was all on display early in the morning of Trump’s winning the 2016 election and stealing the biggest prize from all the political pros. How dare he even think of doing such a thing, never mind succeeding at it.
I wonder how long these folks will milk the Trump cow? He’s out, their guy is in, and still they drone on and on. When Obama was president, my liberal friends fawned all over him on FB. When Trump was president, my liberal friends mocked him all over FB. Now that Biden is president (the most popular president of all time no less), and my liberal friends are back to showing pictures of their dogs and dinners, with a side of mocking Trump. It’s just crickets when it comes to Old Joe.
It’s almost as if they need to keep the spotlight off Joe for some reason…
Hmmmm, could it be because Joe is persistently unpopular and the worst president since Carter? He might well be the opposite of Obama, who won when he was on the ticket, but his policies lost when he was not. I think the secret fear of a lot of the Democrats is that Joe will drag them down with him next year.
They got lucky in a lot of ways last year. The Republicans had a tough Senate map to defend. They are going to have the tough map to defend this time out. Hopefully the GOP has learned its lesson about running candidates that do not have broad appeal. The wounds of the Dobbs case were still raw. That initial shock has worn off now. Black lives matter has been exposed as the grift that it was. Even if it wasn’t, huge protests would only make Joe look bad, not whoever the Republican candidate is. Worst of all, Joe now has a record as president, and it isn’t a record to be proud of. There really isn’t a single major achievement that he can point to, and there’s a lot of major failures. He also can’t hide in his basement, and anyone who isn’t blinded by partisanship can see that the man is falling apart cognitively. Anyone who isn’t blinded by partisanship can also see that Joe or his handlers are turning this nation into a third world dictatorship. Third world dictatorships arrest their main opposition candidate on trumped-up charges in the hopes of locking him up permanently. Third world dictatorships outlaw basic necessities in the name of pushing forward some great new goal. Third world dictatorships put industries out of business. Third world dictatorships spin failures as great successes. Third world dictators make speeches casting half their nation as the enemy.
If you don’t believe me, look at history. It’s places like Venezuela under Hugo Chavez who locked up the opposition. It was in Mao’s China that they broke up large efficient metal plants in favor of backyard furnaces which could achieve nothing and that they followed blindly stupid policies that led to great famines. Need I even tell you who it has been and is getting up on the podium and ranting about who the enemy of the nation is?
We’re not quite there yet. There might even be a feeling that we weathered the storm of 3 years ago and really not too much changed except a bunch of broken statuary. Well, first of all, that’s not true. The people who got killed or saw their livelihoods go up in flames would beg to differ, if they could, or if they weren’t being intimidated by thugs. Second, a precedent has been set whereby one political party can use mobs as a militia to destroy or intimidate the opposition. Third, the current leadership, supposedly the most popular of all, is pushing stupid policies that are guaranteed to be disruptive at a time when the economy can least take it. Fourth, you have shills like this, who are probably living comfortably somewhere where none of these problems can reach them, pushing the idea that the real danger lies not with incompetence within but with made up enemies without. Do I need to spell it out for you further?
We aren’t there yet, but is it really that far of a step from pushing electric cars and outlawing gas stoves to cutting off the one allowed source of power to anyone who dares to think or speak the wrong way and denying them basic necessities? Is it really that far of a step from trumping up charges against one political opponent and unequal application of justice to showing someone the person and then showing the crime? Is it really that far of a step from proclaiming half the nation the enemy to mass arrests and “reindoctrination centers (aka political prisons)?”
A lot of us spoke out one election ago and no one listened to us. There was a belief that as long as we got rid of Trump, the nation would stop spinning out of control. Well?
Correct, fixating on Trump provides a distraction from the epic failure that is Biden.
A couple of really minor details but worth mentioning; Cieslewicz calls himself a “center-left” or a “moderate Liberal” but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him call himself a centrist, also his blog is hosted on WordPress not Substack and I don’t think he is getting dollars from readers – certainly not me or others I know that frequent his blog.
Cieslewicz is literally one of the people he wrote about in that blog post…
Cieslewicz tries hard to put on a facade of moderation and then he shoves his foot in his mouth with one Freudian slip after another like this doozy…
Simply put, it appears to me that Mayor Dave preaches one thing and then defaults to pure partisan politics. Cieslewicz has shown me that he can be very hypocritical especially when it comes to free speech.
I fixed those. Careless. I’m not sure what the difference would be between a centrist liberal and center-left; maybe Curmie can direct him to a test. Boy, the thing looked exactly like a substack newsletter! Fooled me.
At least he didn’t act like a certain cartoonist and say that “those of us on the left feel superior morally and intellectually because we are.”
Just waiting for all the commenters to come in and take issue with your unwavering support of Trump.
Don’t ban them too quickly.
-Jut
That diet coke went right out my nose…thanks a lot.
We were watching the 2016 election results on ABC. As the results started coming in and more and more states started calling the race for Trump, the panelist began to look like they were at a wake. Martha Raddadz, who I had always admired because of her reporting from war zones, actually had tears in her eyes. As Trump would say “it was a beautiful thing”. Of course, I would have voted for Bugs Bunny before I would have voted for smug, lying Hillary.
I found Jack’s and Dave Cieslewicz’s articles extremely thought-provoking. Let’s start with a simple question. Why do progressives hate Trump and for all he stands for? I will ignore including politician’s motivations in my analysis as their self-interest overshadow ideology.
Trump’s style is easy to hate by many, regardless of political persuasion. He is loud, crude, and abrasive with an unhealthy dose of grandiosity. As a real estate developer, he can rarely say anything without including puffery. If you have snake oil to sell, he’s your man. While Trump is a slime bucket, is that enough of a reason for progressives to hate him so much? I don’t think so.
Excerpts from Dave Cieslewicz’s blog post and Nicholas Kristof’s NY Times opinion piece struck me as interesting and may give us a clue why he is hated so much.
Dave Cieslewicz
“Smugness is not new for my people. Liberals have long felt superior, both morally and intellectually. Earlier in his piece Kristof claims that Baby Boomer libs were more humble because they had experienced failure both on the policy and the political front. The Great Society didn’t produce one and Reaganism dominated politics for the last part of the 20th century. But if liberal Boomer humility is a thing I sure haven’t noticed it.”
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
“Consider that three of the four states with the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness — California, Hawaii, and Oregon — are all run by Democrats. Look up and down the cities of the West Coast — where liberals reign — and it’s impossible to celebrate a triumph of good governance. We may have great values, but we don’t always have great outcomes.”
It is common for adolescents as they come of age to have aspirations of how the world should be. It is also common for once starry-eyed youths to reflect back on their lives and accomplishments as they enter their senior years. Because of sheer numbers, when this happens to the baby boomers, the repercussions can be seismic. Both Cieslewicz and Kristof acknowledge the utter failure of progressive policies going back to the sixties. It is difficult for many people to admit they are wrong. For a group that considers itself to be “superior, both morally and intellectually”, the failure of its ideology must be unbearable.
Bill Clinton comes along and he seems like a Cool Dude, but he basically makes deals with and caves to the Republicans. And, damn it, the Republican contract with America actually produced some positive results. Bush the younger comes along and he is fun to poke fun at, but as a Republican progressive, he is tolerable. Then 9/11 comes. Everything is upended.
USA! USA! USA!
Enter the Obamas: the King and Queen of Cool. He is going to fundamentally change America. Yea! Utopia is just around the corner. Free health care for everyone! Race problems solved! Dreamers legalized! Obama phones and other free stuff for everyone. And so on and so on.
Hillary is guaranteed to be the first women president. She will take the baton from Obama. Utopia is insight! WTF! How the hell did Trump win? How could somebody less likable than Hilary win?
Trump takes office and despite opposition from members of both parties, he actually gets things accomplished. He begins by undoing multitudes of Obama executive orders. America is on the move again. Prices at the pump are down. No inflation. The economy is humming. The US is no longer dependent on foreign oil. Prosperity is returning to working Americans. Trump’s border policies even slow the rate of overdose deaths. And so on and so on.
Trump proves Obama’s declaration that America was never all that great and that we needed to accept a new normal of lower expectations was wrong. Trump presides over the realization that sixty years of aspirations have come to naught. Reality, what a bitch!
As boomers enter their twilight years, elder progressives can’t cope with their failure to deliver Utopia and the fact that their policies made things worse as Reagan and Trump demonstrated. Consequently, progressives are dragging the country through the 5 stages of grief.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. I think progressives are in the
anger/bargaining stage. If they can just get rid of Trump, they think they can still right their ship, but time is running out. I accept that it is devastating to come to grips with the fact that everything you believed in was wrong and you are too old to do anything about it. For the generations the boomers sired, accepting what they have been repeatedly told is not true is equally devastating. I think that while Trump is easy to hate, he is just a scapegoat. He allows progressives to avoid confronting the reality that everything they believed in is wrong.
After all, morally and intellectually superior individuals can’t be wrong. Right?
Most excellent comment Tom.
Agreed, and if great values aren’t producing great outcomes, maybe they should be reexamined.
I’m going to devil’s advocate here.
“He has undermined our most cherished institutions, destroyed norms of decent behavior, made racism and misogyny acceptable, disregarded facts, lied with impunity and lied with impunity.”
Take those separately:
1) undermined our most cherished institutions
2) destroyed norms of decent behavior
3) made racism and misogyny acceptable
4) disregarded facts
5) lied with impunity
You seemed to take issue with 1 and 3, but didn’t touch 2, 4, or 5. And I think that’s because everyone knows that 2, 4, and 5 are self-evidently true. Trump is a boor, he says boorish things, he has destroyed a whole lot of norms on what is acceptable behavior. What came first, Trump, or “impeach the motherfucker”? When the facts don’t support him, he makes up his own, and he does absolutely lie with impunity…. From Crowd sizes to polling numbers, to the size of his hands. He is a small man in a bog body driven by ego and willing to say whatever fits his current need. If anyone really wants to push back on those, I’ll pick up the torch, but I’ll spare no punches because my impression of anyone that wants to carry water on Trump’s character is that they don’t have much of their own.
But let’s go back to 1 and 3 for a second.
On 1 – Who was it that pushed through two sham impeachments? The Democrats. Who threatened to pack SCOTUS? The Democrats. Yes, yes, cast iron pot, stainless steel kettle. But that’s a race to the bottom. Trump also put someone actively suing the EPA as head of the EPA. A lot of the people he’s in a running gun battle with at the FBI were his own appointees. He had the unilateral ability to fire Anthony Fauci and he did not. I’m not going to pretend that Trump is defensible just because the Democrats are bad. He picked bad people, he fought bad fights, and America is worse off for it.
On 3 – The question asked was “How did Trump make “racism and misogyny acceptable”?” and the answer is obvious: Even if you don’t believe that things like the Megyn Kelly debate comment, or the “Go back to where they came from” comment were examples of sexism or racism, even if you don’t believe that Trump was racist or sexist, even if you don’t believe that the “very fine people” comment weren’t about the tiki torch wielding Nazis, the fact of the matter remains that the racists and misogynists felt empowered under Trump.
The question then is why they felt that way. And yes, yes, I get it, a lot of that was Democrat and media driven, they ought to do more soul searching and less navel gazing, CNN basically created Richard Spencer out of a street preacher without a street. But again, we can do some soul searching too, and the reality is that Trump did a piss poor job handling the topic, he was really coy about criticizing his base for far too long, and by the time he made his more substantive criticisms, the damage was done. It also pays to mention that he’s the leader of the free world with a massive bully pulpit… Even his more substantive criticisms weren’t enough. It was a failure of leadership.
It was at this point I asked myself… “Geez Jeff, you might be setting yourself up. That paragraph was really marginal, and it might be nestled between some Grade A insanity. You might be setting yourself up for a particularly stupid death on a particularly stupid hill.”. So I read the whole thing.
I’m amazed by how much heavy lifting those ellipses did. There were 300 words between them. Those 300 words, and the 400 words following them, are important. They paint a narrative so divorced from this criticism of it that I’m questioning whether or not you actually read it.
Cieslewicz is taking an actual centrist position and criticizing Trump derangement without having the term to use. Perhaps he does so with a lack of self-awareness, but he recognizes it as a problem. How do you take a criticism of progressive excess from inside the Democratic party, miss or ignore the entirety of the argument, and decide that the fact that he thought the originating problem was Trump is the important take away? Even if you really wanted to talk about Trump Derangement, there *had* to be a better case study than this.
Read it:
But he’s done something more subtle to liberals. In this case I don’t mean his “owning of the libs” as he likes to say. Owning the libs is about deliberately getting under their skin and making them over-react. That’s done so easily by so many people that Trump hardly corners the market on it, though he has taken it to an art form.
What I mean is that he’s made it almost impossible for center-left people like me to give some credit to the other side. I come from the old world where you could say that conservatives and Republicans sometimes had a point and that they shared our goals but just had a different way of getting to the same place.
It was a good thing to live in a society where one party believed government could solve nearly every problem while the other was skeptical of its competence and worried about its overreaching. It was a good thing to have one party that emphasized communal needs while the other valued individualism and self-reliance. It was a good thing to have one party that embraced free trade, internationalism and an engaged foreign policy while the other wanted to pull back a bit more.
As my friend Spencer Black once told me, we used to play the game between the 40 yard lines. Now we’re not even in the same stadium.
(…)
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof made this very point in his column last week. He wrote:
“I worry that the liberal penchant for renaming things is counterproductive. When we employ terms like “Latinx” and “A.A.P.I.” or we fret that it is offensive to refer to “the French” or “the college-educated” or we cite “people with uteruses” rather than “women,” the result is meant to be inclusive but actually leaves many Americans feeling bewildered and excluded. The way to win elections is to engage voters rather than wag fingers at them. Slogans can’t replace evidence-based policymaking that understands trade-offs and embraces nuances. It’s easy to say housing is a human right, but that doesn’t get anyone into a home. My guess is that we liberals will continue to do silly things from time to time and that our silliness will be directly proportional to our smugness.”
Smugness is not new for my people. Liberals have long felt superior, both morally and intellectually. Earlier in his piece Kristof claims that Baby Boomer libs were more humble because they had experienced failure both on the policy and the political front. The Great Society didn’t produce one and Reaganism dominated politics for the last part of the 20th century. But if liberal Boomer humility is a thing I sure haven’t noticed it.
Nonetheless, I agree with Kristof that it has gotten worse. Young liberals who are growing up with Trump cannot conceive of a world in which Republicans and conservatives are not the enemy, not just people with different policy approaches to the same problems but people who see problems liberals don’t see and ignore problems liberals see as fundamental. People who, when the facts don’t support them, simply claim those facts are a hoax. People who are immune to embarrassment over ignorance and guilt over hypocrisy.
This was not written by the Trump deranged, for the Trump deranged.
You’re allowing the guy to benefit from his own self-contradictions, HT.
And..
1. The beginning is an appeal to Trump derangement. And it’s wildly over-stated. You know what he means by “undermining institutions.” It hypocritical and projection: he doesn’t mean the CDC or the FBI. EA has documented the destruction of the Left’s attack on SCOTUS and the Presidency, the Bill of Rights, higher ed, the rot in in journalism: Trump didn’t do that, or make Democrats do that.They did it, they started in 2015, and they never stopped.
2. The whole article blames Trump for how the Democrats have become anti-Democratic. Surely you see how ridiculous that is.
3. Stating outright that Trump has never had a valid point isn’t the very essence of Trump derangement?
4. Rebutting this requires rehashing 1001 posts. It isn’t “Whataboutism” to point out that what attacks like this one claim are flaws unique to Trump in their magnitude and frequency simply aren’t. I slogged through the Posts alleged Trump lie database. Most were flat out not lies. No lie, real or imagined, that Trump ever offered as POTUS had the impact of Obama’s lie to pass the ACA. Biden, obviously, makes up facts daily. Hillary and Clinton are pathological liars. Writing that somehow Trump embodies these characteristics so uniquely that he has single-handedly transformed the political landscape is either deluded or dishonest. I can’t believe you would but it—or were you just playing devil’s advocate for the fun of it?
5. And again—Trump just isn’t that radical. He’s not even particularly conservative in many areas. Blaming him because the parties “aren’t even in the same stadium,” when it is the Left that rocketed way into the parking lot, is outrageous. At least when the Religious Right caused the GOP to jump the rails, no moderate conservative blamed it on Jimmy Carter.
6. And I can’t let this pass: “The question asked was “How did Trump make “racism and misogyny acceptable”?” and the answer is obvious: Even if you don’t believe that things like the Megyn Kelly debate comment, or the “Go back to where they came from” comment were examples of sexism or racism, even if you don’t believe that Trump was racist or sexist, even if you don’t believe that the “very fine people” comment weren’t about the tiki torch wielding Nazis, the fact of the matter remains that the racists and misogynists felt empowered under Trump.”
Which is STILL not the same as making racism and misogyny acceptable. Harvey Weinstein was enabled by Hillary, Democrats, and the Hollywood left. #MeToo broke out while Trump was President. So did Black Lives Matter. If racists and misogynists felt empowered under Trump, they sure botched their chance.
7. So the guy begins by wildly overstating what Trump did (and Humble, really: the crowd exaggeration again? Has any stupid comment by any politician ever been as over-referenced as that one?) and then you say he is blaming Trump Derangement…which he embraces off the bat—but can’t find the term? Again—isn’t that per se derangement itself?
Still, I appreciate the devil’s advocacy exercise. Bravo.
Dave Cieslewicz in his post blames Trump for making it “almost impossible for center-left people like me to give some credit to the other side.” He goes on to say Trump has caused liberals to become intolerant and closed-minded. (my words, not his) Wow, I didn’t know Trump was so powerful that he could steal a whole segment of society of their free will, turning them all into automatons and victims.
Cieslewicz ignores an indisputable fact. No one can compel you to do anything you don’t want to do. Except for eventually dying, every action by humans is a personal choice. This does not ignore that those choices may have unpleasant consequences that the individual may not be able to control. However, their choice is still theirs to make. Cleslewicz‘s failure to take responsibility for his and people like him for their actions is unethical, cowardly, and irresponsible.
“However, their choice is still theirs to make.”
Is it…is it really…?
As a lifelong resident of The 77 Square Miles Surrounded By A Sea Of Reality who did his level best to vote Mayor Bike Shorts out of office (successfully, the last time), I humbly suggest what lurks just below the surface: He unwittingly concedes how easily herded career Lefties truly are.
Jack, please delete the above.
I mean, I announced that I was going to Devil’s advocate, and I’m not a creature of half measures. I don’t actually put stock in all of what I said there. I know that he wasn’t referring to the tiki-torch wielding crowd when he said “very fine people” as an example (which I thought was my lowest of hanging fruits).
But I will say that I firmly stand by my point about the tone of the article being more self depreciatory than you give it credit for, and I absolutely think that there has to be better examples of Trump derangement out there.
And frankly… If Trump announced tomorrow that three of the charges against him were being thrown out by the judge, I wouldn’t inherently believe him. I’d be open to the possibility, but I’d wait to see it. He lies too much for anyone to trust him. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next day, instead of charges being thrown out, more were laid. It follows a pattern. Honestly…. Between Trump and Hillary, I’d be hard pressed to determine who was the pettier liar, but it has to be one of them.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’s deranged.
“What came first, Trump, or ‘impeach the motherfucker’ ?”
What came between the two deserves mention, courtesy of Wapo:
The Campaign TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP Has Begun
The date?
January 20, 2017
Gaaak
“From Crowd sizes to polling numbers, to the size of his hands. He is a small man in a bog body driven by ego and willing to say whatever fits his current need.”
“From crowd sizes, to polling numbers, to the size of his hands. He is a small man in a big body, driven by ego and willing to say whatever fits his current need.”
But I LIKE “bog body”!!!
Donald Trump is the problem, I think not.
After Donald Trump was elected President in November 2016, the political left could have easily chosen to be the adult in the room for the next four years; however, the political left chose differently. The political left chose to flush their ethics and morals down the toilet and pull back their false facade revealing their anti-American, anti-Constitution and anti-Liberty tendencies continue to weaponize bureaucracies and their Pravda-USA media outlets against those they oppose and proceed to do the things needed to drive the USA towards an absurd world of Orwellian styled totalitarianism. The political left, not Donald Trump, has actively undermined all that has supported the USA for well over 200 years. The political left has actually become the evil they’re looking for in their opposition.
I don’t like the loose cannon mouthed narcissist Donald Trump one bit and I won’t support him in 2024 if he gets the GOP nomination, but even I can see that the left has collectively lost their damn minds and their absurd actions and reactions to Trump since 2016 are the real problem. The left needs to be deprogrammed away from their ignorant cultish ways.