These are the elemental issues that Trump’s supporters willfully ignored, misunderstood, actually approved of, or simply never took into account when re-electing him.
What bothers me is how many Never-Trumpers seemed to have been surprised by the extremities of what he attempted once re-elected. They should have seen it all coming (except perhaps for the Elon Musk business)
But in the end, though, the real problem lies with the Republican leaders who did see some of this coming back in 2016, said so quite publicly, and then conveniently ignored their own concerns once it became clear that Trump was on track to win the nomination. And of course the utter failure of the Republican Senate to honor their oaths to the Constitution and convict Trump after January 6th. Without that shameful debacle, we wouldn’t be here.
As long as we’re entertaining ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’ in assigning blame, I’d venture further upstream. I had to demonstrate explicit qualifications (including clearing a morality bar) before being granted surgical privileges at my hospital. Anyone can apply for the privilege, but those not qualified are turned away. Similarly, anyone should be allowed to ‘apply’ for the presidency, but not everyone is ‘qualified’, and those shown to be unqualified, should not be accepted.
From a business standpoint - six bankruptcies - from a morality standpoint - judgments against him for discriminatory rental practices; failure to repay loans such that US banks wouldn’t deal with him; failure to pay contractors using threats of financial ruin through the courts to withhold lawfully due payments all should have been publicly announced much more loudly than was done in a much more thorough general public vetting of the man.
We have constitutional qualifications already such as age and place of birth, why not ability qualifications? Running one’s own business selling his name where ‘my way or the highway’ reigned instead of having to answer to …..anyone, should not be enough to allow someone to ‘try and run the country’. Add in disregard to his known moral failings, and we got what we deserved.
These are the elemental issues that Trump’s supporters willfully ignored, misunderstood, actually approved of, or simply never took into account when re-electing him.
What bothers me is how many Never-Trumpers seemed to have been surprised by the extremities of what he attempted once re-elected. They should have seen it all coming (except perhaps for the Elon Musk business)
But in the end, though, the real problem lies with the Republican leaders who did see some of this coming back in 2016, said so quite publicly, and then conveniently ignored their own concerns once it became clear that Trump was on track to win the nomination. And of course the utter failure of the Republican Senate to honor their oaths to the Constitution and convict Trump after January 6th. Without that shameful debacle, we wouldn’t be here.
Good analysis! Share it widely.
As long as we’re entertaining ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’ in assigning blame, I’d venture further upstream. I had to demonstrate explicit qualifications (including clearing a morality bar) before being granted surgical privileges at my hospital. Anyone can apply for the privilege, but those not qualified are turned away. Similarly, anyone should be allowed to ‘apply’ for the presidency, but not everyone is ‘qualified’, and those shown to be unqualified, should not be accepted.
From a business standpoint - six bankruptcies - from a morality standpoint - judgments against him for discriminatory rental practices; failure to repay loans such that US banks wouldn’t deal with him; failure to pay contractors using threats of financial ruin through the courts to withhold lawfully due payments all should have been publicly announced much more loudly than was done in a much more thorough general public vetting of the man.
We have constitutional qualifications already such as age and place of birth, why not ability qualifications? Running one’s own business selling his name where ‘my way or the highway’ reigned instead of having to answer to …..anyone, should not be enough to allow someone to ‘try and run the country’. Add in disregard to his known moral failings, and we got what we deserved.
Michael Freedus