The problem with piling on against Trump, as so many people now do, is that the bulk of those who oppose Trump — and surely those who scream most loudly — did not and do not extend their criticisms to Trump’s predecessors.
Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama were each quite bad in extremely important ways. Those who think that Trump is particularly bad base most of their critiques on matters of style. And thus they excuse themselves from dealing with substance.
I want no part of this numskullery, so I rarely dump on Trump.
Sure, it would be easy. But it would be worse than no good. It would make matters worse. It promotes a backlash against a symptom of a deeper problem while inoculating the population from any genuine fix.
Yes, I regard the anti-Trump pile-on as perhaps even more indecent than Trump himself.
Of course, Americans (by and large) want to be fooled. They want to think most things are hunky dory just so long as the leaders of their party (whichever it is) get in power . . . and the opposition party be ousted. I have zero sympathy for this view. I think it delusional.
Which explains why I merely marshal the occasional criticism against the new presidency. Never go full anti-Trump.
Making much of opposing Trump is mere virtue signaling — without the virtue.
twv
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