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kleinbl00  ·  1192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff

If you backed Trump, at any point, you are not a conservative.

if you backed Trump, at any point, you are not a humanitarian.

If you backed Trump, at any point, you're likely going through some things. You earned 'em. You earned every last bit of rebuke you're getting. Every last bit of scorn. Every last bit of shame, every last bit of doubt, every last bit of chagrin.

No one - NO ONE - with any experience with the man has been surprised by his unfitness to lead. No one who has met Trump or worked with Trump has been astonished by his self-serving narcissism. No one who has met or worked with any part of the Trump organization has been surprised by their vindictive nature, their opportunism, their hypocrisy or their pure, banal evil. This has been known and publicized back to Bob Dylan.

There was a steady stream of conservatives who drew the line in the sand the minute Trump became the nominee. There has been a steady leak of Republicans who have abandoned the party over Trump's excesses. They have been called RINOs and worse. They have experienced derision and career suicide. Right now? People who have seen the light at this late date are experiencing death threats for not setting course for the center of the sun. Right now? Right now you can save money on a MyPillow with the discount code 'QANON'.

So it comes down to this: did you disavow shit before fascists beat the head of a cop in with a flagpole? Or after? No you know what it doesn't come down to that it comes down to whether you have any culpability in backing a man who has been telegraphing his disregard for the rule of law since 1989.

If that makes you uncomfortable it means you're growing.

They'll fight us with violence anyway. They always have. They need no excuse. As half of Twitter has quipped, the NRA went bankrupt before even going a full year without a school shooting.

There comes a time when you need to acknowledge that some Americans are enemies of the people. Enemies can be reformed. They have to want it. And if they face no consequences they never will.