I have never heard an entire class of people labeled “enemies of the American people” by anyone that I recall, certainly not by anyone with any real power.
Here’s the thing, Meg
(and though I as a gentleman know better than to ask a lady her age, my perceptions tell me we are about square on that one, you and I):
I may be wrong, and my predictions have failed me before. After all, I had the career of that Mrs Clinton fairly well written out in advance since the day I heard her speak at CU-Boulder in 1992, right up until that astonishing night of 11/08/16.
But I think this Donald fellow may well turn out to be the ultimate paper-tiger of a President. Four years is a long time, while five-some-odd weeks is not. In my own lifetime, I have never seen a chief executive enter office attended by such a ferocious combination of continual and outspoken “resistance”, twenty-four-seven micro-scrutiny, and utter lack of mandate based on an electoral outcome. He has already capitulated on one key appointment for not very good reason, backtracked and obfuscated and muddled around on several absolute statements made during his candidacy, and in general shown himself the furthest thing imaginable from a guy hell-bent on absolute power by any means necessary.
He is by all current indications a creature who thrives on pure and up-to-the-minute approval, not power for its own sake. I foresee him as a shaky and reactive leader at best, who in due course will invite more direct and effective opposition from his own party than from any other quarter, and in all likelihood not even receive its nomination in 2020.
Add to that, the fact that very similar voices using other rhetoric, were making alarmist predictions about Obama seizing and holding power and preventing a peaceful transfer, for eight years. If I had a dollar for every rural Republican I heard use the words “martial law” since 2009, etc, etc.
Most of what people are reacting to about Trump, in my opinion, has little or nothing at all to do with Trump. Reacting, for reacting’s own self-sustaining sake, is what people do here in 2017. How his presidency plays out will certainly show his bluster and immaturity in all its truest colors, but I don’t see all the horrific predictions about his being some threat to the Republic itself as anything but idle sport by a comfortable population exercising their cushy privilege to rant and rave at will.
In that way, the stupid, reckless things our President says on an hourly basis, just shows he is more one of us than anyone may yet recognize. Doesn’t it?
