The two terms of Barack Obama’s presidential administration buttressed our faith in the future of Republican Democracy. We were confirmed in our belief that the errant Presidential terms of Richard Nixon and George Bush, like that of history’s Andrew Jackson’s, were anecdotal and not empirically representative of the historical traditions of that August office as exemplified by the esteemed service of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Needless to say, the elevation of Donald J. Trump, whose primal malevolence, incompetence, and egocentric desire for autocracy have been previously observed, was a shocking and disheartening epiphany. The events during his administration elevated the folk aphorism regarding the “rotten apple in the barrel” creditability and emphatic ratification in an unprecedented putrified and disturbing evolution of sentiment concerning our Republican Democracy and its systemic regard for citizen liberty and equality, A foul mist of autocratic political pollution suddenly invaded the historically fresh air of ” liberty and equality of all,” inspired in by our American constitutional principle and dynamically proclaimed in our free way of life,
Most puzzling and systemically devastating was the resultant outbreak of a toxic National pandemic of viral Trumpist support, sweeping the Nation, most especially inclusive of the inadequately educated and poorly informed hoards of populists, financially supported by the self-interested profit-loving, anti-health regulation, industrial orthodox devotees to the Deity of profit.
The inordinately large number of anti-democratic political office holders visibly in fear of Trump’s sway over the voting power of his cultish sycophants permitted, even, encouraged, a vile metastasis of anti-democratic and antisocial elements to perniciously invade our traditionally healthy body politic and infest it with self-hatred and the denial of principle. An egocentric, orange-haired, proverbial rotten apple had, incredibly and tragically, spoiled the National barrel of historically established, unique republican democracy. The prevailing sentiment sadly making its rounds throughout the Nation became fear and distrust rather than the stable and prevailing efforts toward, mutual confidence in one another, regardless of physical difference, and ultimate faith in the ultimate benevolence of the Nation. Frustratingly, nightmarish was the consequential decline in honor and principle of its highest Court, The Supreme Court of the United States, the existential judicial guardian of citizens’s constitutional rights..
In this toxic morass, the political identity of the Republican Party, one of the two parties in our essentially two-party balanced political system, ceased to exist as a utilitarian and doctrinal opponent to the Democratic Party, bizarrely transmogrified into an obedient Trump cult. The mainstream American citizen had empirically accrued significant, cause to fear for the very endurance of the Democratic Republic and to be in fear of a nightmarish replication of the 1930s Munich Germany; especially considering the large populist, underbelly support, for the proclamation of the unhinged contemporary day unstrung. orange-haired Roman Emperor Nero’s frequent proclamations of his intention to be a dictator,,if reelected,
We especially intend this writing to articulate a “fanfare” and salute to the several members of the Republican Party whose patriotic dedication to our mutual American Nation, and its foundational principles overrode their future concerns of political career to ethically, articulate their opposition to the anti-democratic, would-be dictator, Donald Trump.
With all grateful and respectful sentiment, we award our kudos to all such patriotic, career-endangering American Republican politicians with our highest official medal of honor, the ” Red Badge of Courage.”
- Title borrowed, with appropriate gratitude from, “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane
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