Consider this blog post as a stone marker on the ground, an adamant declaration of “here and no further”. It comes down to this:
If you support Donald Trump, you and I will no longer have any association. If you are voting for Trump in November, you and I can no longer share any sort of friendship or even casual interaction.
By supporting Trump, you have revealed yourself as a person morally bankrupt, or intellectually damaged, or both. And the most damning thing you have revealed is that you hold absolutely no regard for the fundamentals of American democracy, nor freedom, nor justice, nor decency, nor the rule of law, nor the Constitution, nor any of the norms upon which the greatest country in history was built.
Instead, you have surrendered your independent thought and liberty to a sociopathic, narcissistic, lying, corrupt authoritarian, a man who cares not a whit for you or your well-being, or any goddam thing in the world other than Donald Trump. That being the case, and since I maintain a set of standards that determine whom I consider a friend, or even with whom I will exchange words, be advised that you no longer rise to any level I will accept.
Furthermore, I have no use for any attempt at explanation for your support of Trump, no willingness to listen to your “reasoning” or “rationale”. If you support Trump, that is demonstrated proof that you have no capacity for reason. Like everyone else in the country, you’ve had the same four years to experience his complete lack of human decency, his endless lying, his imbecilic pronouncements, his idiotic and embarrassing lack of even the basics of how our government works, his sadistic cruelty and bullying, his willingness to not just ignore, but to trample the precepts set out in the Constitution, his greed, his stonewalling and coverups, his corruption that continues to line his pockets in direct violation of the emoluments clause, and on and on and on. So there is no possible reason that you could provide for supporting this monster.
But if you do support him, either you are hopelessly blind, or else you agree with his words and actions. If you are indeed that blind, then you must be willfully so; the sheer extent of Trump’s abominations make it impossible to ignore or deny them without actively working hard to do so. And be advised: if the gods strive in vain against stupidity, they rage in righteous anger against willful ignorance.
If you agree with what he has said and done, then you are, like him, a worthless excuse of an American, much less a human being. To agree with Trump is to have forsaken every basic building block upon which this great American Experiment rests. You are denying the critical principles of justice for all, individual liberty, and equal treatment under the law. You are forsaking the basic humanity which all our better angels forever compel us to promote: work for the common good, care for the least among us, feed the hungry, protect the children. Not put them in cages.
So, again: if you support Trump, if you plan to vote for him, put us in the category of “No Longer Connected”. Unfriend me on FB, or send me a message, and I’ll unfriend you. As Henry told Eleanor in “The Lion In Winter”, “We do not touch at any point.”
And we never will.