Donald Trump’s narcissistic, scatterbrained, sometimes cataclysmic moral ineptitude hurt America in two different ways, first by his own attacks on what is so precious to our way of life and next by inspiring his political enemies to join the party.
They had at him unsparingly while he was in office, and, now that he is more or less gone, they are going after his supporters as the worst trash ever seen, people due next to no rights and whose lives should be ruined. The incendiaries simultaneously attack free speech and other high principles. The new president, Joe Biden, recommended unity through civility, humility and tolerance in his inaugural speech, and, well, were they listening?
Sorry, but listening isn’t a proclivity of people looking down on those not as pure or wise as they are, such as Harvard officials who kicked graduate Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., off the Institute of Politics senior advisory committee for not voting the right way in the second Trump impeachment. That televised performance, from my perspective, was less a due-process proceeding than convenient assumptions wrapped in outrage.
Perhaps Stefanik should have known that we live in an era in which any nod Trump’s way is treated as suspected Communism was in the McCarthy era, and we’re not through with Harvard. Alumni and students have been petitioning to actually revoke the degrees of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, whose master’s degree at Harvard was in public administration. Cruz graduated near the top of his class at Harvard Law School, hardly a collection of dunces, but, then, his conservative views are stupid, aren’t they?
