After Border Cruelty, No More Excuses For Trump
Connie Schultz
June 15, 2018 4:00 am
Last week, in a discussion thread on my public Facebook wall about the current political climate, a reader asked a question that’s been needling me: “How do we keep from demonizing those who would demonize others?” In attempting to answer her, I realized how much I’ve been wrestling with this since the 2016 presidential campaign.
I am not isolated from Donald Trump voters. A close relative voted for him, as did some longtime friends. People I’ve trusted with everything from our home to our pets voted for Trump, too. It is impossible for me to demonize all of these people in my life and be done with them. We have too much shared history that forces me to remember all those other parts of them I loved and admired before they broke my heart.
I wasn’t raised to give up on people. Nearly 20 years after her death, I am still my mother’s daughter. She was used to being underestimated by so many people who later told her she had changed their lives. It hurt her sometimes when people initially dismissed her, but she put her faith in God and second chances. Had she not been willing to wait out their growth spurts, she would never have known the magnitude of her impact.
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I have reached the point, however, where I do not hesitate to tell people who voted for Trump that I do not need to hear why they thought he should be president.
I tried, I really did, but I’m done. This administration is pulling hundreds of screaming children out of the arms of their immigrant parents, often without so much as a goodbye. I don’t have a hot second for those who still think President Trump was a good idea.
The news just keeps getting worse as the Republican majority in Congress refuses to stand for the lives of innocent children. And isn’t that one hell of a punchline?
Last week, the Des Moines Register reported that a teenager from Iowa who had lived in America since he was 3 was deported to Mexico and killed soon after his arrival.
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