Now that Joe Biden has become president and his comprehensive “infrastructure” package will put our nation’s money where former president Donald Trump’s mouth was, benefiting probably most people, including his die-hard supporters, it would be nice if we had tranquility in Washington and elsewhere.
It would be nice, but it won’t happen because, as the saying
goes, “Haters gon’ hate.”
We need to keep in mind that many of your Trump supporters
never cared about policy as such — they were, and are, angry, bitter, resentful
people attracted to his snarl. For the
last 30 years or so politics has clearly been far less about which philosophy governs
than about side is defeated — no, destroyed, out of sheer hate. Trump tapped
into that contempt for anyone or anything that leaned left, not because he or
anyone else was proposing any alternative. (The opposition to the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010 by Barack Obama,
must be placed in that context.)
But Trump’s worshipers are still trying to promote him
as a messiah. One outlandish scenario has him running for Congress from Florida
and, assuming that he gets elected, becoming Speaker of the House and engineering
an impeachment of Joe Biden.
(It’s outlandish for two reasons: 1) Trump’s ego is way too
big for him to be a “team player’ on any level; and 2) More importantly, it was
God Himself who took Trump down because he tried to usurp His throne.)
That being said, let’s not be fooled. Despite his being
banned from social media for his incendiary comments that violated their terms
of service, he’s still a force to be reckoned with and we forget that at our
peril. Moreover, his followers don’t believe at all in accommodating other views;
as we saw on Jan. 6, they see compromise as surrender.
As the phrase coming from urban America goes, haters gon’
hate. And because of that, I see trouble on the horizon.
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