Dear "Conservatives",
By electing Donald J. Trump, you have asked us for a divorce. Really, you’ve demanded it. Why do I say that?
You told us you cared about religious liberty. And then you elected a guy who has pledged to stomp on the religious liberty of our friends and neighbors.
You told us you cared about free markets and integrity. And then you elected a guy who has undisclosed business ties to God-knows-whom and who is clearly using the power of his office to alter the free market. He’s literally tanked stock prices of companies with Tweets! This is so counter to everything you ever said you wanted, we can’t quite wrap our heads around it. You told us you were humiliated by Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the White House and that it demeaned our country. Then you elected a guy who bragged about grabbing women “by the *****” and who was accused of rape by his ex-wife. We can’t comprehend this.
A terrific list of the contradictions we can’t wrap our heads around. Either you were conned, or you never meant any of these things in the first place.
You told us you cared about the military and its traditions and that we were awful parents because we didn’t care enough. And then you elected a guy who disparaged Prisoners of War (a group so hallowed in this country, there’s a special flag) and who regularly said our military is a disaster.
You told us that you are suspicious of the imperial presidency and executive actions unchecked by congress. This was the unforgivable sin of that Obama guy we loved so much. And then you elected a guy who is wreaking havoc with executive actions that are poorly constructed and poorly communicated. In response to the chaos of his Travel Ban order, his approval ratings haven’t budged among conservatives.
You told us that it was all about States Rights and municipalities to make their own decisions. You’ve been telling us that since you guys were Democrats (under Jefferson) and we were Federalists (under Adams) — the federal authority is too great and the States must have autonomy! And then you elect a guy who declares he might send the National Guard into one of our great metropolises, threatens to defund States that don’t support his immigration policies, and declares he will pull Federal funding from a University because it didn’t allow some alt-right pipsqueak to speak (it did, but that’s not the topic for this conversation).
You spent years venerating Ronald Reagan, who called the Soviets the evil empire and particularly had a big problem with the KGB and what it did to its people. He also spoke quite a lot about tearing down walls and not building them. And then you elect a guy who can do nothing but praise the former KGB agent heading Russia, who says he’s going to build a wall, and who appears to have deep and shady connections into Russia. Or maybe he doesn’t! But you seem unconcerned with even the possibility.
You elected him, and now that he’s acting this way, you’re still supporting him! We expected — truly, deep down, no lie — that once he began to behave like the bullying Emperor we suspected he would be, the sort you always accused Obama of being, you would begin to pull your support. We so wanted to believe it. But his approval rating is 89% among Republicans. You like how he’s acting. And from this we can only conclude…
You hate us now more than you love the kid.
You hate us now more than you love your own beliefs and values.
You hate us so much that you would side with Russia, you would abandon your principles, you would do anything to defeat us and watch us roil.
We can only conclude that it is precisely our unhappiness with the President that makes you happy. And if that is the case, you don’t dream of ever working with us. You don’t dream of ever reconciling. You dream of defeating us. You dream of humiliating us.
Divorce?
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