After all is said and done, bottom line… what is your biggest take-away from the fact that Donald Trump is the President of the United States?
Mark Lipse, Author of Misgovernment (2017)
Look at the people around you.
The thousands of people you have known throughout your life.
Your colleagues at work, your acquaintances and friends, family members including parents, siblings, your children, cousins, the workers who serve you in the shops, the people working at your bank.
At first glance, they all seem so normal, so harmless, so average.
However, if half the people - people that surround us - can vote for Trump without batting an eye then at least half the people around us are moral zeroes.
The argument that it was Hillary or Trump is unbelievably mendacious. Simply making that argument reveals how sick the souls of the Trump voters are: the Trump voters themselves are fundamentally dishonest. They never rejected Hillary for her own sake. They used their voting power in the Republican primaries to reject 17 Republican candidates IN FAVOR OF TRUMP long before they ever got to voting against Hillary.
Every single one of these 17 Republican candidates was seriously more decent and capable than Trump.
On what grounds could one honestly claim that Trump was better than John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, George Pataki, or Bobby Jindal, just to name the better ones?
And if you really did not like any of those 17 other Republican candidates, there were third-party and the independent candidates! How about the best of them, Evan McMullin?
No other candidate in America debased himself or herself in this following ways:
Call on a hostile power to hack a fellow citizen’s emails
Brag about grabbing pussy
Mock a reporter with a disability
Slander a bereaved family of a a Purple Heart and Bronze Star decorated army captain killed in war
Question their president’s place of birth
If someone votes for a man who is so obviously treasonous, vile and cruel, it was because they lacked a moral core. It is because the filth and cruelty of this man thrills and pleases such people.
And finally, one could have decided simply not to vote, rather than vote for Trump.
So my take-away from the fact that Trump is now the president is that half the people around us - who seem so normal, so harmless, so average - are at the core - and by now openly so - moral zeroes, a danger to us and themselves and it shows.
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