Since taking office, President Trump has
done much to earn praise from those who opposed him during the campaign. His
executive orders have, for the most part, been those we would have expected
from a truly conservative president, and his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the
Supreme Court was a fantastic pick.
And then Trump goes and says something
as incredibly stupid and insulting as he did in the recent interview with Bill
O’Reilly, when he equated America with Russia and said, in response to O’Reilly calling Putin
a “killer”, “You think our country’s so innocent?”
Seriously? I mean, seriously? You’re really going to compare the United States of
America, the modern birthplace of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, to
Russia, led by a man who could well be a real, actual terrorist?
Ben Sasse, Republican Senator from
Nebraska, had the perfect response.
Every thinking person knows very well
what the GOP’s reaction would be had it been Barack Obama saying the exact same
things Trump said in that interview. And it would be completely justified.
There have been many times over the past
two weeks when I ask myself why I voted against Trump, particularly after his
nomination of Judge Gorsuch. And then something like the O’Reilly interview
happens, that makes me say, “Oh. That’s
why.”
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