Don't Say You Love This President and America. One of Those Things Isn't True.
by John Pavolitz
Enough.
Really, friend—take off the big red hat and retire it.
That whole MAGA nonsense has about reached its expiration date.
All your flag-waving histrionics and your hand-wringing anthem outrage have proven to be nothing but fake news.
All that America First chest-bumping and God Bless America showy piety you’ve spent the past two years peddling, looks largely ridiculous at this point.
This week has fully exposed you.
When a sitting President stands alongside a murderous dictator and declares to trust that man more than American Intelligence, more than our public servants across the aisle, more than our nation’s Press—he’s stepped out into the stark light of day and revealed himself.
When he is more willing to meet with one of our greatest adversaries; a man guilty of poisonings and murders for hire and war crimes—than with American troops on the ground or Democrats in the House or shooting victims here at home—he’s declared who he is.
And when you refuse to name it all as treasonous, when you choose to remain silent, when you pretend you don’t see it—you declare who you are.
We see it. The world sees it.
Oh sure, we expected as much all along. Throughout the campaign we could see that with each passing day you’d started to sell off your soul in tiny little parcels. It was sickening to behold.
With every vile word about women you excused, with every act of thuggery you overlooked, with every bit of race-bait you gobbled up, with every hate crime you turned away from, with every vicious Tweet you normalized—you gradually lost the plot.
Lots of things kept falling to the wayside in you, along the way to his “Making America Great Again”: decency, compassion, honesty, goodness.
When we brought these things to your attention, you tried to wrap it all in Old Glory apple pie and fireworks—but we had a hunch that all that past greatness you said you wanted to get back to was really just whiteness.
We thought it was just racism and nationalism.
We figured it was Islamophobia and misogyny.
We suspected it was weaponized religion.
We imagined it was homophobia and privilege.
We knew it was blind hatred of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
That was all bad enough.
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Thanks for posting. 
