Going back on his promises? He did this immediately.
At this point, its not just about him going back on all of his campaign promises faster than any other POTUS before him.
It's that all those of us who were Trump critics could not have fathomed just how bad his ascent into power would be.
I mean, really think about that.
We considered how horrible he could be. We hypothesized about every single doomsday scenario. How terrible his picks could be. How he'd attack our rights. We were so imaginative too. Creatively guessing. To the point of ridiculousness.
We said things like "Oh, he'll be Putin's lapdog." But did we truly think he would, overtly, prove to be? No. We thought it would be a in-the-shadows kind of thing. It was more joke than an expectation.
But look at him go. Not only exceeding our fears. Compounding them. Raising them exponentially. Like the fission of the nuclear explosion we may face under his directives, it has grown more chaotic and terrifying than we could ever have guessed.
That was a tall order. We expected the worst. He outdid it.
He proved that he could be worse than anything we could imagine.
We just have to pray the Electors who will cast their vote on the 19th make history and prove we aren't the kind of nation Trump thinks we are.
We aren't the Divided States of America. A nation that allows hate. A nation that can make a big deal about one person's mishandling of emails, but ignore a man who thinks our Intel community can't offer him intelligence he doesn't already know. A nation that allows a literal assault on the press, those that disagree, and the 1st Amendment itself.
Look at his cabinet picks. He's unraveling Democracy at the seams. He touted how he would Make America Great Again. When were we great, then? What year were we last great? Which societal progresses, which advancements, which humanitarian missions and accomplishments do we need to undo to go backwards to this undetermined and unspecified moment of American perfection?
I have never seen this level of insanity reflected at any point in history. This is unprecedented. I have pored over every moment in American history. Read the biographies of a dozen presidents. I have read the Federalist papers. I know the Preamble. I know the rights we are afforded. I know the founding fathers who were slave owners and those who knew better. I know those who were Freemasons. Those who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence. I know what they risked, why they risked it, and how.
I know that George Washington wasn't our first President. I know why four Presidential terms are no longer allowed. I know why we joined each war and why we thought it was the right call.
I know about our progresses. Our trespasses. That we weren't always perfect. Sometimes we were even downright terrible. Sometimes we still are. From internment camps less than a century ago to the injustices forced upon those protestors of DAPL.
I know that our greatest moments are not behind us, they are ahead of us. Taking us backwards to fulfill Trump's ideologies will make us worse, not great again.
There is nothing to be learned in making the same mistakes from our past. We changed for a reason. Grew for a reason. Now we're going back? Halting progress? Coming to a standstill?
The worst way to drain a swamp is to make the swamp stagnant. That breeds disease. Contamination. It ruins the ecosystem.
He is the anomaly in our system. The piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit. He is domestic terror with terrifying international ties.
He has the potential to be the first American despot. That is not hyperbole.
I pray. I beseech to you. To read any book or see any movie about dystopias.
The parallels of novels presented by Rand and Orwell to the upcoming administration under Trump are staggering.
The most dangerous leaders aren't the ones who take control by force. They're the ones we vote in on confidence, believing false promises, excusing every glaring admission of treachery, and thinking as our rights are stripped away that somehow... We still made the right decision.
This isn't Republicans versus Democrats. It's not Trump versus Hillary. We are so passed that now.
This is Americans. Just Americans. Bipartisan politics should not divide us anymore. This begs objectivity. Empathy. A deeper understanding beyond parties and elections and campaign promises.
If you were to only look at one thing... Look at the events from the election results to now.
Look at what Trump did. What he's doing.
Leave Hillary and Bernie and all the rhetoric behind.
Look at current events. Then ask.
Is this ok?
Is any of this ok?
If a Democrat was so obviously filling his cabinet with people who are not only aligned against the Departments they were joining... But who actively wanted to undermine or dismantle them...
If a Democrat hired men and women who were either inexperienced, biased, or had outside business interests that he could curb in his/her own favor...
If a Democrat had unsettling ties to a country that hacked our nation, our government even, to get the candidate elected we now have...
Would this be acceptable to you? As a Conservative, would you believe that this person would be a great leader of the free world?
If you can't say, with 100% certainty, that if Trump had run as a Democrat...you still would have voted for him, after saying and doing some of the most un-American things in our history...
Then ask yourself. Is this about a great leader... Or about the representative of your party.
Because he doesn't represent the party of the ticket he ran under.
We stand on a precipice. We are facing an uncertain certainty of something worse.
We have little time left to rectify... to undo our mistakes. To undo an electoral decision that will impact our country negatively.
That is assured.
Progress is made by Making America Greater. Not in Making America Great Again.
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