Can someone please explain what is up with the anti-Trumpers and their lofty superiority? Even more, their arrogance? Does the mere fact that they favored the hypocrite, Bernie Sanders or, worse, the criminal that is Hillary, entitle them to such imperiousness one would think their candidate actually won? After their collective hard cry on election night, a frosty disappointment set in, followed by the Resist movement, because acceptance is a difficult thing.
My guess is the Obama-supporting faction went one of two ways in the election: towards Crillary and her bevy of Enterprise space suits, or towards Trump. I am in the latter group. Mind you, while named a “Deplorable” by the very Queen of Corruption, I don’t fit the media’s ongoing perception of what constitutes a Trump voter. That should bestow upon me every right to speak my mind, to show the people that Trump voters aren’t really deplorable, right? Nope. Problem is, because of where I live (a blue state) and my prior predilection for those values that used to signify the Democrat party, I have to keep silent. Moreover, until recently I was working as a professor, but God help me if I even hinted at supporting Trump. I’d be stoned in the quad by colleagues and students alike. I grew to envy those with balls big enough to plaster Trump bumper stickers on their cars, though you don’t see those around anymore, promptly removed because the nation quickly soured against Trump, and it’s only grown worse. Just look at Antifa. Better yet, the underground movement of Never Trumpers in the West Wing!
What gets me more than anything is the bullying nature of those on the Left. You see them on the news, drawn as haughty and smug talking heads, and as Resisters. Just look at Maxine Waters, the biggest bully of them all, who calls for all sorts of opposition, and she gets it. Resisters bully people out of restaurants and hold rally after rally shouting their ire into bullhorns and microphones. They disrupt quiet rallies on the Right, thus thwarting their efficacy. They try to silence our voices. Shameful.
And it even gets personal. I can’t “come out” of the Right-wing closet. I’ve lost two friends so far; one after a direct email exchange in which I confessed my sin, and one after I took the wrong side on a Facebook post. I have a third who’s just about there, a true Resister. I don’t hear from her anymore; I think she knows my sin. And so I hide here, the one place where I’m clandestinely safe. It’s sad, really, to think that folks are willing to toss aside friends and family because they can’t stomach the opinions of the other side; they can’t even try to see why we support our President. Instead, they stand their ground, cheerleading every pessimistic news report and the drip, drip, drip of leaks, and lies, and books all designed to dismantle his presidency. I wonder who might be sitting behind the curtain orchestrating it all: Obama, Crillary? Maybe no one. Maybe it’s just the slow tsunami of a collective body bent on destroying America.
The Turncoat Patriot 