You were certain wrong before... and now you are more wrong.
However, thank you for this stream of consciousness that so clearly demonstrates the cognitive defects and dissonance afflicting the elite upper-class coastal and big city liberal cohort.
As Reagan so aptly put it... it isn't that our liberal progressive friends are ignorant, it is that they know so much that just isn't so.
Wow! How idiotic from beginning to end. If you think progressives are better or have better intentions or that Kamala was the alternative or Schiff or an untouched, unaccounted USAID, or a partisan judiciary and a Deep State with a senile moron at the helm with his “doctor” wifey and his criminal family meddling in Ukraine, then you are not a responsible citizen, you are a fake.
People expect the president to embody superior character and leadership—an idealized figure of integrity and wisdom. Yet, in reality, the role demands ruthlessness and unwavering resolve, as every executive decision involves high-risk trade-offs.
This isn’t a job for a kind, well-meaning neighbor from your community. It’s a role suited for those who excel under pressure, prioritize strategy over sentiment, and are laser-focused on winning—often at the cost of empathy.
Politics isn’t a feel-good story—it’s a ruthless, thankless game that primarily serves those who seek power and influence. Yet, many people expect national leaders to validate their emotions rather than focusing on the effectiveness of their leadership.
This explains why so much attention is placed on what Trump says rather than what he actually accomplishes. People are fixated on his words, when the real question should be: Does he deliver results?
Since before his original participation in the GOP primary last decade, there was literally nothing in the world more obvious than that Donald Trump was wholly unsuitable to be President. I have not the slightest clue as to how so many millions of people couldn’t see that.
“He has tens of millions of people who believe in him, he's their tribune. Have some respect for them if you don't have any respect for him.” Why? In fact having grown up in a purple state I have felt the opposite for the last nine years. Every Republican I respect dislikes Trump, every Democrat who went over to Trump was a person of bad character before Trump came along. You can be a decent ill informed person and vote for Trump or you can be intelligent and sociopathic and vote for Trump. Trump has created a coalition of the worst 10% of Americans combined with the stupidest. If I didn’t respect these people before they voted for Trump I’m not starting now.
Glenn, I love your exchanges with JM and listen regularly, but you really should have taken the high road on this and not try to embellish what should have been a three-sentence apology - I’m sorry. Y’all were right about Felonious 47. I fucked up.
Motherfucker, second time Glenn’s written this, I call bullshit. The Glenn show is a religion, whenever Glenn gets tired of whatever political tribe he’s in he just testifies, asks for forgiveness, and then does the opposite of whatever he was just doing.
To the sane intellectuals weighing in and saying what needs to be said—speaking out against the excesses of an incumbent administration and its agents—from a place that is not merely a braying and predictable echo from the relay chamber of the opposition, but rather speaking up for the greater cause: the invisible shelter of the house in which the left and right stand and argue, unaware of the enormous inheritance of privilege that allows them to be so free and empowered when so many people in the world cannot, and when, for most of human history, such freedom was not possible.
To you sane voices, thank you for speaking, it is so necessary and so critical. My only criticism and matched concern is that it is too little too late.
Too little, too late.
Even now, as vital and refreshing as your voice and reason is to the public conversations it is too little, too soft, too meek, and somewhat too late. The contagion has spread too far, the fire is burning too hot.
You cannot grind the jagged edges and deep fractures away with a polishing cloth.
Find your iron, find your grit. Sure, we don’t need more fuel for the fire but we also don’t need a wineglass of cordial when an airdrop of fire retardant wouldn’t make a dent.
And for the sake of the founding fathers and the welfare of all Americans, alive or still to open their eyes to the unfolding trouble that is arriving whether your house were divided or not—or the sake of all who sweated and bled, who gave their lives for the freedoms you had and those you still have, find a way to make coming together under common cause more important than your individual projects of decorous thought leadership. Speaking wisely and even stridently from the gentlemanly soapbox of your corner of the internet is wonderful, but not near enough. Wisdom in the end is that which is most necessary and what is most necessary right now is leadership and visibile solidarity.
Find the others, and find a way.
Please, while it is still possible to do something. What got us here will not get us there. Yesterday it was disappointing. Today it’s deeply troubling, tomorrow it will be dire, at some point what we call dire will be the least of our worries.
How verbose.
You are still wrong about Trump, life, the world. But it is a free country.
You were certain wrong before... and now you are more wrong.
However, thank you for this stream of consciousness that so clearly demonstrates the cognitive defects and dissonance afflicting the elite upper-class coastal and big city liberal cohort.
As Reagan so aptly put it... it isn't that our liberal progressive friends are ignorant, it is that they know so much that just isn't so.
And police shootings…
Wow! How idiotic from beginning to end. If you think progressives are better or have better intentions or that Kamala was the alternative or Schiff or an untouched, unaccounted USAID, or a partisan judiciary and a Deep State with a senile moron at the helm with his “doctor” wifey and his criminal family meddling in Ukraine, then you are not a responsible citizen, you are a fake.
How sad. I was beginning to believe that you stood for something besides wider acceptance. Too bad, that.
Wow. You’ve completely lost the plot. Hate to see it
People expect the president to embody superior character and leadership—an idealized figure of integrity and wisdom. Yet, in reality, the role demands ruthlessness and unwavering resolve, as every executive decision involves high-risk trade-offs.
This isn’t a job for a kind, well-meaning neighbor from your community. It’s a role suited for those who excel under pressure, prioritize strategy over sentiment, and are laser-focused on winning—often at the cost of empathy.
Politics isn’t a feel-good story—it’s a ruthless, thankless game that primarily serves those who seek power and influence. Yet, many people expect national leaders to validate their emotions rather than focusing on the effectiveness of their leadership.
This explains why so much attention is placed on what Trump says rather than what he actually accomplishes. People are fixated on his words, when the real question should be: Does he deliver results?
Since before his original participation in the GOP primary last decade, there was literally nothing in the world more obvious than that Donald Trump was wholly unsuitable to be President. I have not the slightest clue as to how so many millions of people couldn’t see that.
GET HIM OUT NOW! We don't need to argue the past. GET HIM OUT NOW!
“He has tens of millions of people who believe in him, he's their tribune. Have some respect for them if you don't have any respect for him.” Why? In fact having grown up in a purple state I have felt the opposite for the last nine years. Every Republican I respect dislikes Trump, every Democrat who went over to Trump was a person of bad character before Trump came along. You can be a decent ill informed person and vote for Trump or you can be intelligent and sociopathic and vote for Trump. Trump has created a coalition of the worst 10% of Americans combined with the stupidest. If I didn’t respect these people before they voted for Trump I’m not starting now.
Glenn, I love your exchanges with JM and listen regularly, but you really should have taken the high road on this and not try to embellish what should have been a three-sentence apology - I’m sorry. Y’all were right about Felonious 47. I fucked up.
Motherfucker, second time Glenn’s written this, I call bullshit. The Glenn show is a religion, whenever Glenn gets tired of whatever political tribe he’s in he just testifies, asks for forgiveness, and then does the opposite of whatever he was just doing.
Oh wait never mind, this is reposting the first one, oh well.
Open Letter to the Sane
To the sane intellectuals weighing in and saying what needs to be said—speaking out against the excesses of an incumbent administration and its agents—from a place that is not merely a braying and predictable echo from the relay chamber of the opposition, but rather speaking up for the greater cause: the invisible shelter of the house in which the left and right stand and argue, unaware of the enormous inheritance of privilege that allows them to be so free and empowered when so many people in the world cannot, and when, for most of human history, such freedom was not possible.
To you sane voices, thank you for speaking, it is so necessary and so critical. My only criticism and matched concern is that it is too little too late.
Too little, too late.
Even now, as vital and refreshing as your voice and reason is to the public conversations it is too little, too soft, too meek, and somewhat too late. The contagion has spread too far, the fire is burning too hot.
You cannot grind the jagged edges and deep fractures away with a polishing cloth.
Find your iron, find your grit. Sure, we don’t need more fuel for the fire but we also don’t need a wineglass of cordial when an airdrop of fire retardant wouldn’t make a dent.
And for the sake of the founding fathers and the welfare of all Americans, alive or still to open their eyes to the unfolding trouble that is arriving whether your house were divided or not—or the sake of all who sweated and bled, who gave their lives for the freedoms you had and those you still have, find a way to make coming together under common cause more important than your individual projects of decorous thought leadership. Speaking wisely and even stridently from the gentlemanly soapbox of your corner of the internet is wonderful, but not near enough. Wisdom in the end is that which is most necessary and what is most necessary right now is leadership and visibile solidarity.
Find the others, and find a way.
Please, while it is still possible to do something. What got us here will not get us there. Yesterday it was disappointing. Today it’s deeply troubling, tomorrow it will be dire, at some point what we call dire will be the least of our worries.
No one else is coming.
Good grief
Are people only now starting to wake up to who Trump is?
Name one thing you were right about.