A week ago Speaker of the Minnesota House, Emerita, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their home by a demented right wing evangelical Christian soon after he shot state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, multiple times, but who miraculously survived.
While I would not say Donald Trump is directly responsible for this horrible event taking place, it is absolutely true that his presidency feeds divisiveness, meanness, and even hatred, that encourages such acts of violence.
As Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, a professional psychologist, wrote after the Minnesota tragedy: “These attacks are the direct result of the dangerous political climate Donald Trump has created, purposefully and maliciously, driven by his need for division and retribution, and his thirst for power.”
It doesn’t matter how much propaganda Fix News and other right wing sources blame “the left” for the chaos our natio n is experiencing, Trump and the Republican Party, people I have started calling “the Red Hats”, are the problem, demonizing and verbally and physically assaulting anyone who opposes him.
Trump and these Red Hats don’t believe in free speech if it means criticizing Trump, don’t believe in equity if you’re not white, don’t believe in the rule of law if it stops them from doing something illegal, don’t believe in common decency if it requires them to tell the truth.
Daily Donald Trump’s words and actions prove that everything Mary Trump said about his impact on our country is true.
A week ago the state of Minnesota lost the kind of person and politician our nation needs to live up to the ideals on which it was founded. This is a time of grieving. Our hearts have been broken and our souls wounded.
Melissa Horton was not only an effective political leader, she was a good person, respected and liked by her legislative colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and loved by her neighbors in the community where she lived, the kind of person someone like Donald Trump not only will never be, but doesn’t even understand.
The reason he doesn’t is because Trump is emotionally, intellectually, morally, and spiritually too small to be a political leader of any kind, especially President of the United States.
What makes it worse is that he believes he’s the greatest President ever. That alone proves how delusional he is.
That is why more than five million Americans, including thousands of Minnesotans, took to the streets a week ago to say we have had enough of Donald Trump.
The message to Trump was unequivocally clear: “You’ve pushed too far, and we are prepared to end your political career. Enough is enough. You would be well advised to remember what happened to former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol after he foolishly declared Martial Law. Hear us clearly. There will be no rulers in America. There will be NO KINGS!”
That’s the message “We, the People” spoke loud and clear to Trump on the same day tragedy struck Minnesota, and we will speak it again, and again, and again, and again until our voices prevail, and rest assured, they will.
It’s only a matter of time.
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Hopeful signs to be sure, Jan. Trump’s reign of terror can’t last forever.
We have to make sure it doesn’t, Wilbur.
Jan,
Your applying “Red Hats” to Republicans is remindful of “Brown Shirts.”
What’s more disturbing that tRump considers himself the greatest president ever is the huge number of his supporters, including the bastion of his appointees, including the military people, who are constantly on call to voice support for this false notion. That is what is scary to me.
The pessimist in me sees democracy in the U.S. is done, at least, on life-support . . I hope.
I still hope for better times.
Gene
Don’t lose hope yet, Gene.