The first and primary reason I supported Trump was his steadfast refusal to kiss the handmaiden of political correctness, i.e., censorship plain and simple! Republicans are the most mealy mouthed, frightened pansies when the left accuses them of “insensitive” speech. Trump shook off their taunts of “big bad bully” and gave it back to them like a General leading an army. He was the ONLY man who stood down Hillary Clinton’s gestapo. FREE SPEECH is what he saved. We were one Presidency away from a totalitarian dictatorship.
“We were one Presidency away from a totalitarian dictatorship.”
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That was the point I was trying to make during the campaign to my conservative third party and liberal leaning friends. But in one ear and out the other it went. The liberals either wanted such a government, didn’t care, or their pet issues (gay rights, abortion, etc.) overrode any common sense they might have had. To the third party voters, I tried to explain how their “vote of conscience,” while making them feel all warm and fuzzy, could have consequences that hurt other individuals or the country as a whole. That’s the part of the moral equation that the “purists” don’t often consider. It simply didn’t matter to them. I actually hold more disdain for these “all or nothing” types than I do poor misguided liberals.