What Makes a “Never-Trumper?”
An old friend contends that those who contest Trump and his policies must have committed harmful acts against the president.
Here’s another viewpoint on the subject that he may wish to consider: About half of this country, and the vast majority of those in the rest of the developed world, believe, based on what they can observe about his actions and statistics (see left), that Trump is a garden-variety criminal sociopath, aka an “anti-social personality.”
Further, they believe that people who support Trump at this point have what could be called a “low confront of evil” or an “ethics blind spot.” Of course, most “never-Trumpers” put this more coarsely and bluntly, using words like “fools.”
Now, let’s be fair. Isn’t it possible that all this attack against Trump is a “witch-hunt,” in which an innocent and productive member of society was unfairly persecuted? Sure. But how likely is it that four different independent grand juries, composed of people just like you and me, handed down four separate indictments including 91 felony counts, simply because it had become fashionable to hate a former president? We’re to believe that they violated their oath and their personal integrity because it was “the thing to do.” I’m skeptical, to say the least.
Whatever the case, one thing is certain: either Trump supporters or his detractors have been conned, and this country has never experienced anything remotely like this in its past.
I’ve spoken with folks from dozens of countries around the globe on this topic, and here’s what they tell me, almost to a person, “We simply feel sorry for you. We recognize that, throughout history, many world democracies, some tiny, some huge, have gotten swallowed up by ignorance and hate, but we never, in a million years, imagined that this could happen in the United States.”
I’d love to think that what John Brennan says here is true, but there is no reason to believe that.
Every American with a good and honest heart beating in his chest knew that a second Trump term was going to be a catastrophe, but I really don’t think anyone saw this coming.
As shown at left, if it were a country, California would have the fourth largest GDP on Earth. It’s weird to hear people say that over-regulation is causing people and businesses to relocate to places like Texas. I want to ask them if they’ve ever been here, or if they can even find our state on a map.
The reader who sent me this asks, “Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?”
The cartoonist here makes a good point.
Using individual extreme weather events as evidence of climate change is not a scientifically accurate thing to do, but this is a lot of tornadoes. 
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich poses a good question here.
In response to the question posed at left, yes. I would say that this applies to about 60% of Americans and probably 95% of people from the rest of the developed world.
