{"id":3699,"date":"2019-07-29T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:19:03","slug":"impeachment-cannot-heal-this-divided-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/impeachment-cannot-heal-this-divided-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Cannot Heal This Divided Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Cynthia Tucker (copied from: https:\/\/www.troyrecord.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two Americas, and they are at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one, every word\n uttered by President Donald J. Trump is the golden gospel, swaddled in \nlarger truths if hostile to simple facts. In the other, Trump is a \nhabitual liar — a con man who has run the Oval Office as a criminal \nenterprise. To one America, Trump is a leader trying to salvage a nation\n set on a course of moral decay, attempting to turn it back to a time of\n purer values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the other America, the president is a flagrant reprobate, a lecherous narcissist with no moral fiber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\n one America, Trump is a strong defender of traditional Western mores, \nwith their emphasis on Euro-centric values, “Father Knows Best” families\n and Caucasian cultural standards. To the other America, the president \nis an unrepentant racist, a bigot who vilifies racial and religious \nminorities, a demagogue who would turn back the progress of the last 50 \nyears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How will those diametrically opposed views of the Trump presidency ever be reconciled? Can they be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\n was nothing in the halting and reluctant testimony of Robert Mueller \nthat could repair the breach, and it was foolish for anyone to expect \nthere to be. Evidence of Trump’s perfidy has long been abundant and \npublic. Any partisans willing to reconsider have had ample opportunity \nto do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But faith in Trump isn’t a rational exercise. It’s \ntantamount to a religion — or a cult. Trumpists have an existential \nfear of a browning America, a primal sense that their hegemony will be \nlost, and the president gives profane voice to their basest impulses. He\n is, he tells them, riding to their rescue. Neither rational arguments \nnor mounds of evidence can overcome that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the backlash to \nthe election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. For \nracially resentful white voters, it was a harbinger of things to come, a\n reminder of inexorable demographic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear of a browning America has been brewing for decades. In his 2011 screed, “Suicide of a Superpower,” the ultraconservative politician and commentator Pat Buchanan predicted a swift decline for a nation that, in his view, was being overrun by people of color. Writer Peter Brimelow — an immigrant himself, albeit a white one — penned a similar tract, “Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster,” back in 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the link at top above for the complete excellent article: Thank you Cynthia Tucker & The Record<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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