Posted on 01/26/2017 1:18:03 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
As someone who supported neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton during the recent election, I find myself surprisingly repulsed by the anti-Trump protests on Inaugural weekend, and I’ve been puzzling over why. Part of the answer is that I don’t accept the caricature of the Trump administration that the mainstream media and the Democrats supply, and I’m bothered that the masses are so willing to do so. The campaign is over, and now Trump and the talented people he has assembled deserve a chance to show us how they will govern before they’re dismissed as monsters.
But there is more to my revulsion. As the Bible warns, “Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.” (Prov 29:11). Commenting on that passage, Sr. Dr. Vassa Larin writes that “self-indulgent rage does not help things, because it only seeks to underline one’s own moral superiority.” A similar analysis explains why the marchers aren’t waiting for the policy fog to lift. Their anger is directed at people, not policies. The protests were intended, above all, to express the protesters’ moral superiority to the president and those who voted for him.
Such expressions are off-putting, in general, but when organized and led by today’s Democratic Party, they are positively nauseating. This is the corrupt machine that insisted on the flawed candidacy of Hillary Clinton. . .
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I hope the left keeps it up.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
and this is why those types of marches and protests don’t work
A few more letters to the editor like this, and Soros will pull the plug on the TDS protest movement. It will vanish in a flash and be forgotten, just like BLM, OWS, and the illegal alien demonstrations did.
Well, Charles, you weren’t a Trumper but you are now. The fact that you disagree in the slightest with the Left will cause them to attack you and revile you as if you were Trump himself. Welcome.
I enjoyed reading that. He is a professor at Columbia no less.
“He is a professor at Columbia no less.”
Uh-oh.
Yeah, he’ll be canned in no time.
Canned and/or caned!
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