Donald Trump is a blaspheme on our national honor
You would think that when a dictator invades a country in Europe and starts flattening its cities and slaughtering its citizens including women and children and babies that it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to denounce him as a murderer and a war criminal and anything else you can come up with. The thing to do would be to take the side of the people who are under attack and, as many Americans have done, contribute money to humanitarian efforts aiding the millions of refugees who have fled the country in terror.
Not if you’re Donald Trump. He called in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show last night and given the opportunity to denounce Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as evil, Trump not only demurred, he bragged about his relationship with the Russian dictator. “I knew Putin very well — almost as well as I know you, Sean,” the former president told Hannity. The Fox host tried twice more to get Trump to say something critical of Putin. He failed.
“I asked you the last time you were on, whether you think that this is evil in our time. Do you believe this is evil in our time?” Hannity practically pleaded as in the background, Fox showed images of body bags being picked up from the streets of the Ukrainian cities of Motyzhyn and Bucha. Instead, Trump launched into a deranged rebuke of NATO and European countries which he described as “every bit as bad as China.”
“I think in a hundred years, people are gonna look back and they’re going to say, how did we stand back and let NATO stand back, which in many ways, I’ve called a paper tiger,” Trump ranted. The man who threatened on multiple occasions to pull the United States out of NATO and criticized the alliance as obsolete and unnecessary falsely claimed, “Don’t forget, I rebuilt NATO.”
Ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump called Putin’s strategy “genius” and “very savvy.” During a previous call-in to Hannity’s show, the host asked him if he didn’t think Putin was capable of “evil things.” “Putin is for Russia,” he said, seeming to confirm that the Russian dictator should be allowed to do whatever he decides to do with Ukraine.
Recall that Donald Trump is the man who withheld military aid from Ukraine in a naked attempt to extort President Zelensky into getting dirt on Joe Biden.
It is our duty as Americans to stand against the murderous dictator of Russia and his illegal aggression against the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Trump isn’t with us. He is not a civilized man. We have an existential obligation: to keep Ukraine from falling, and to make sure that Trump never again crosses the threshold of the White House so that our own country does not fall.
DonaldTrump sees in Vladimir Putin a kindred soul, a man very much like himself. And Trump is in awe, and perhaps jealous, of Putin's nefarious accomplishments.
They are both evil incarnate. History is littered with with horrors wrought by similar men. They all too often end up leading nations, and I will never understand why the rest of mankind permits it.
While I agree with you, Lucien, what we must accept is a very large percentage of our population, primarily those on the far right, really do not care all that much about honor and principle particularly if they get in the way of acquisition of political power to enact their own agenda. What we have in the Trump base is a coalition of racist, xenophobic losers who have become convinced the Republican Party is going to help them solve their grievances and, yes, limit participation in our democracy only to those who are "worthy" of calling the shots for everyone else.
What is amazing to me is just how many of Trump's base love to wave the flag and shout patriotic slogans while their money and votes are dedicated to a fascist state of mind. They are too damn dumb to understand the inherent conflict but they do vote with regularity and consistency to hold off the inevitable demographic transition which is coming. And, unfortunately, appealing to their honor is not the answer, They and their beliefs must be crushed at the ballot box.