Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? Loathing him has been a passion,....
Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump?
Loathing him has been a passion, an addiction, a compulsion. Let impeachment be the last hurrah.
By Keith Olbermann
Feb. 12, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/trump-impeachment-media.html#click=https://t.co/F858Vxmy93
"I hated Donald Trump when hating Donald Trump wasnt cool. My credentials date back to Dec. 15, 1983, when CNN sent me to cover a public forum featuring the moguls of four New York sports teams..."
"Would the hate be better addressed and the nation be better served by a long and meticulous public investigation into the attack on the Capitol or even the entire Trump presidency, shaped something like the Watergate hearings, the Army-McCarthy hearings and the 9/11 commission? Or are the wounds too new to be thoroughly reopened? If wed had television and Ken Burns then, would his The Civil War documentary have been a must-watch in 1866? Of course, there is already historical revisionism about Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 conspirators. Any sense that we might be too quick to relive the nightmare must confront the reality that the proverbial first draft of history often becomes the final version with only minor edits."
"Ultimately, if this latest spasm in the greatest-ever threat to democracy doesnt ease the hate, it will not be because we who loathe Mr. Trump are exhausted or traumatized or healing. It may be because even if 17 Republican senators were now to shock the world, theres really nothing they can do to Donald Trump that we would feel would suffice."
"The only thing we actually want to watch is the criminal trials. In which case, the worldwide popcorn shortage might be an extinction-level event."
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,569 posts)much in my life. The amount of hate is infinite. I vote for a non partisan, fully funded, separate,criminal, independent investigation too. I wanted that instead of Mueller. We need one that can't be tainted.
Woodwizard
(837 posts)Hate takes too much mental energy better used elsewhere.
Nitram
(22,768 posts)to American Democracy, that he weakened the United States domestically and abroad, that he connived to profit from taxpayer money to enrich himself, his family and his cronies, that he incessantly lied to the American people many times a day during his campaign and then while in office, and that he planned and executed an attempt to stop the vote count and overturn the 2020 election by inciting his armed followers to storm the capitol and capture or kill the Congress men and women who were engaged in the constitutional process of counting electoral votes and certifying the election results.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)trump will be a vile, dangerous political force up until his very last breath. He summoned a killer mob once, and he can do it again. Obsessive hatred is exactly what he deserves.
BigmanPigman
(51,569 posts)Skittles
(153,122 posts)I will despise that pussy grabbing, traitorous con man for the rest of my fucking DAYS