I am composing an op/ed piece that will be published in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA—06). (I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in this district in 2012, and I have continued to challenge the district’s Republican majority about what they’re supporting (in Trump, and in the whole disgraceful Republican Party of these times) through weekly op/eds in the newspapers.)
This new op/ed will be another of those challenging messages.
I will be asking my pro-Trump readers, “How Do You Explain It?” — and then listing out a whole bunch of factual statements that together make an absolutely irresistible case for the proposition that Trump is an unfit person — a threat to the nation — to be wielding the powers of the American Presidency.
Among the items on that list, I’m planning to include things like
- what what Trump’s own people — like Tillerson, Mattis, Kelly, and Bolton — have said about Trump;
- what George Will and a variety of other life-long principled conservative Republicans have had to say about Trump;
- what Trump’s long-time fixer, Michael Cohen, said on national TV to warn the Republicans in Congress about what kind of man they were supporting;
- how America’s traditional friends around the world see us now, with Trump as our President;
- what polls show about how the majority of their fellow Americans feel about Trump;
- the things that hundreds and thousands of professionals in various area — justice, national security, and public health — have made public statements raising the alarm about Trump’s lawlessness and his betrayals of the national interest.
I’d appreciate help from readers here in developing the most effective set of entries for such a list. Optimally, each entry should
- be essentially factual
- be capable of being stated concisely
- and effectively challenge Trump supporters to come up with an explanation of such an extraordinary, stunning and alarming range of testimony that is compatible with their choosing to support Trump.