Nobody likes to admit they're wrong, especially about politics.
What still baffles me is why so many people hate Trump so deeply, to the point it destroys their ability to reason and leads them to abandon cordial relationships and alienate former friends who voted for him or who even express any sort of approval for Trump's performance as President.
Nobody likes to admit they're wrong, especially about politics.
What still baffles me is why so many people hate Trump so deeply, to the point it destroys their ability to reason and leads them to abandon cordial relationships and alienate former friends who voted for him or who even express any sort of approval for Trump's performance as President.
As my mother would intone when I eagerly went on record as to "hating" something or somebody, "hate" is a strong word. Perhaps it would be less baffling to you, Bull, to consider that for many people Trump stood as an apt metaphor not for the obvious decline of America from all measurable sectors, but as metaphor for what they perceived as a decline in civic virtue, and their reduced agency for managing the effects this decline has had on their own lives.
Civic life in America had grown crass and indifferent, and there was Donald Trump-- crass and indifferent.
What you write about metaphor makes sense, and I think the Trump tenure will also be seen as a watershed in our relationship with the press, an institution that has given up even the pretense of nonpartisanship. Trump gave us that and a new appreciation for the corruptibility of our security state in the name of . . . what, exactly? I'm not sure. The maintenance of political influence and bureaucratic sinecures?
But these musings don't explain the vitriol I have encountered when discussing Trump and his presidency. I have met people who hate him so much it has unseated their reason.
I think truth is more important than civility, and it seems to me that crassness (at least Trump's variety) has galvanized voters, getting us to vote in greater numbers.
Nobody likes to admit they're wrong, especially about politics.
What still baffles me is why so many people hate Trump so deeply, to the point it destroys their ability to reason and leads them to abandon cordial relationships and alienate former friends who voted for him or who even express any sort of approval for Trump's performance as President.
As my mother would intone when I eagerly went on record as to "hating" something or somebody, "hate" is a strong word. Perhaps it would be less baffling to you, Bull, to consider that for many people Trump stood as an apt metaphor not for the obvious decline of America from all measurable sectors, but as metaphor for what they perceived as a decline in civic virtue, and their reduced agency for managing the effects this decline has had on their own lives.
Civic life in America had grown crass and indifferent, and there was Donald Trump-- crass and indifferent.
What you write about metaphor makes sense, and I think the Trump tenure will also be seen as a watershed in our relationship with the press, an institution that has given up even the pretense of nonpartisanship. Trump gave us that and a new appreciation for the corruptibility of our security state in the name of . . . what, exactly? I'm not sure. The maintenance of political influence and bureaucratic sinecures?
But these musings don't explain the vitriol I have encountered when discussing Trump and his presidency. I have met people who hate him so much it has unseated their reason.
I think truth is more important than civility, and it seems to me that crassness (at least Trump's variety) has galvanized voters, getting us to vote in greater numbers.