The walls are closing in
Thought for the day
The walls are closing in on Donald Trump and his many public claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Based on what Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr, Senator Mitch McConnell, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and the former president's own chief of staff Mark Meadows have said, it is clear there never was a basis for the "Stop the Steal" movement and the lies DT fed millions of Americans.
In short, there was no voter fraud in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and several other states. What's more, the conspiracies people cooked up in their basements and relentlessly unleashed on unsuspecting voters continue to poison the minds of our childhood friends, next door neighbors, work colleagues and relatives.
What we are seeing today reminds me of the nation's response to COVID. At least there was a vaccine developed to help people fight off the disease. There is no such vaccine to fight off the fiction people like former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, Rep. Jim Jordan and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene continue to spew.
America is at a crossroads. We can either allow people who believe the 2020 election was rigged to roam free and keep lying, or we can hold these same people legally accountable for their actions and "Stop the Big Lie" once and for all. It's both that simple and that complicated.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. All roads lead back to Trump. With this last thought in mind, I wonder which path America will take between now and next year's presidential election?
-DF
Denny, you always write well, but this is particularly good and intense. I would cut the last paragraph and end on the sentence: « All roads lead back to Trump ». That is a more dramatic ending! I hope you are submitting this to some source.
I take question with the "roads lead to Trump" analysis. They certainly did at the beginning, because DT captured the angst of 40 (or 70) million Americans who felt dispossessed, left behind, blah, blah, blah, and parlayed that onto a loyal following of Magats who hung on his every conspiratorial word.
But those days are waning. He's lost a great deal of his popular support, with primarily the loudest and foulest - and Republican politicians - remaining.
I think the problem currently resides with the media - from Fox News & MSNBC to the WAPO, NY Times and the rest of mainline media - that make EVERY story about DT, retweet every X, etc.
If the media ignored him, and called out his lies as lies, he might have much less influence on the country. Who really cares what he thinks anymore. Most of us do not.