A Washington Post Op-Ed that expounds on that very question poised to America….
Will American voters in their states, vote FOR someone who wants DE-CONCSTRUCT more than 200 years of America’s way of governance?….
We’ve heard the same words from Republicans who refuse to stand up against the MAGA movement and then try to distance themselves from its predictable consequences. Such as Kevin McCarthy, who, as Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, told CBS News: “What we’re currently watching unfold is un-American. I’m disappointed, I’m sad, this is not what our country should look like. This is not who we are.”
McCarthy, who was then House minority leader, soon after showed who he was. Just two weeks after declaring that Trump “bears responsibility”for the riot, he made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring, asking absolution for telling the truth in public.
So “This is not who we are” can be an affirmation, a reprimand, an inoculation. What is worth questioning is whether those words are now the truth about Americans, or ever were.
An answer will come in November. No election in memory will have provided such a clear delineation of what American values really are….
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In 2012, amid the rise of the tea party, President Barack Obama promised that if he were reelected, it would “break the fever” of political dysfunction that had overtaken Washington.
Obama won, but the virus had taken hold. And in 2015, a new variant emerged off an escalator in Trump Tower.
If, knowing everything Americans now know about him, they reelect him — or even come close to doing so — it will be time for all of us to quit lying to ourselves.