Time to Move On? From What?
There’s a rather interesting internet picture I’ve seen that piqued my interest.
“Irony: People Waving Confederate Flags, Telling Others, ‘You Lost. Get Over it,'” the caption says.
That says a lot, doesn’t it?
Not that many of the Republicans who voted for Donald Trump delight in waving Confederate Flags. But, let’s face it, there are many Trump voters who feel that those who didn’t vote for him, should shut-up and move on.
I’m a Democrat. (As if you didn’t already know that). I freely accept the outcome of the presidential election.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, my opposition to the incoming president won’t evaporate, since I still believe he’s unsuited for the job.
For the Trump camp, and Trump himself, to imply that every American should just fall in line, is laughable.
Trump and his acolytes are fully aware that on the very night our current president was inaugurated, 15 Republican leaders held a four-hour meeting and strategized a plan that would politically cripple him.
Or, that Sen. Mitch McConnell (before he became the majority leader), vowed that, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,” in October of 2010.
McConnell’s statement was a way of trying to bully Obama into meeting Republicans halfway, even though he already had.
Unfortunately, Obama knew that Republicans had already vowed to block him at every turn, starting on his first day in office. A fact that the president’s wife made clear during a recent interview.
“It (cooperation) wasn’t done when my husband took office, but we’re going high, and this is what’s good for the country,” said Michelle Obama.
This current nonsense that instructs Democrats to capitulate, and to give up the fight, is silly.
Especially since the man whose future-presidency they’re defending is the same guy who held out hope that President Obama wasn’t even an American citizen when he was elected.
Trump pulled that prank long past the time in 2011, when President Obama proved he didn’t know what he was talking about.
That didn’t stop Trump from questioning Obama’s legitimacy for three more years – until November of 2014.
In fact, one Republican, outgoing Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, claimed he has proof Obama wasn’t born in the country, two weeks ago.
Somebody should have told Arpaio years ago, to “give up the fight.” By now, just about everybody believes his five-year “investigation” was nothing more than a publicity stunt.
There’s nothing mysterious about Trump and his post-campaign staff calling for Democrats to openly take their medicine.
Trump frequently talks about winning the election by a “landslide,” when he hasn’t.
The sad truth about that comes from a recent Qualtrics survey, which indicates that 52% of Republicans still believe that Trump got more popular votes than Clinton. (The real Clinton advantage is at 2,864,974 and growing)
It’s the height of hypocrisy that Trump and company want Democrats to fall-in behind him, when they don’t seem to be able to face current realities, themselves.
Despite the overwhelming information from the nation’s intelligence community that Russians have had a hand in the presidential election, Trump rather sides with Vladimir Putin, and his denials, than with the agencies he’ll soon head.
Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, refuses to admit there was any Russian interference.
Instead, he points to how that’s a way for Democrats to delegitimize Trump’s election.
Where was Mr. Priebus when Trump was doing that to President Obama with that birther business?
All we know is that Priebus, who at the time was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, repeatedly claimed that it was Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, that started that ugly birther stuff, back in September.
There are many reasons why some Democrats aren’t quite willing to happily fling themselves onto the “Trump Train.”
Chief among them is the president-elect’s inability to fully understand that turnabout is fair play.
Trump never thought President Obama was worthy of the office.
Now it’s our turn.
Edward A. Owens is a three time Emmy Award winner and 20-year veteran of television news. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net