It is all too easy to view Trump’s campaign to regain the presidency as political theatre. Outlandish. So exaggerated, so filled with hyperbole to be almost humorous. But it’s much more than that I see at this moment. It’s a clear and present danger to the future of our nation and to the future of the world.
I write this today as I would not have even a week or two weeks ago. I believe Trump has crossed a line mentally. He is no longer rational. His comments leap all over the place, disconnected. The latest on Saturday had him asserting that the Civil War could have been negotiated, did not need to have been fought. He has described the people who pled guilty, some of whom are in jail, for participating in the uprising of January 6, 2021 as “hostages” who should be released.
Former Vice-President Pence came out yesterday recommending to fellow Republicans that they support Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis for President, not Donald Trump. If only a phalanx of fellow Republicans would stand up in unison publicly to say the same thing.
I move to the Supreme Court decision which is pending on the question of whether the State of Colorado (or any other state) can bar Trump from the primary or general election because of the article in the 14th Amendment barring the election of any person who has participated in or supported an insurrection. Trump clearly has done that.As has been pointed out, the Supreme Court has several avenues they could pursue to overturn Colorado’s decision and, as they would say, let the voters decide. And it is my belief that even with the electoral challenges Biden faces, Trump will be rejected. But the brave decision on the part of the Supreme Court will be to accept the political outcry that would accompany its supporting the State of Colorado, a decision which I believe would be judicially correct. Doing this would also have the enormous benefit of eliminating even the possibility of the clear and present danger which Trump represents to our Nation and the world.
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