If you wanted a good explanation of why I have never voted for Donald Trump and don’t like him as a president, you don’t need to go much farther than his remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Consider this passage:
He understood. He really did. He understood what was right, and he was right about that. A lot of it was based on common sense, by the way, Charlie wrote back to the staff member saying, I’m not here to fight them. I want to know them and love them, and I want to reach them and try and lead them into a great way of life in our country. In that private moment, on his dying day, we find everything we need to know about who Charlie Kirk truly was. He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry. I am sorry, Erika. But now Erika can talk to me and the whole group and maybe they can convince me that that’s not right. But I can’t stand my opponent. Charlie’s angry. Look at that. He’s angry at me that he wasn’t interested in demonizing anyone.
The emphasis is mine. Perhaps Mr. Trump was just employing a rhetorical device (it’s called a “dichotomy”) but I take him at his word. I believe he hates his enemies.
I don’t hate anybody. Anybody. Not only does my religion forbid it but I believe that hatred makes you that much less of a human being.
I don’t oppose people. I oppose ideas. I don’t hate the people who advocate policies with which I disagree. I hate the policies and the ideas behind them.
Trump is a piece of shit human and the ultimate narcissist.
I had a discussion over this general issue with a close friend who is a rabid Trump supporter. He told me that he hated some Democrat. (At this point i dont really remember who.) I told him that unless he knew them personally there wasn’t a good reason to hate them, that he was probably mostly reacting to an image created by their opponents. By the same token, if you think some political is absolutely wonderful, never lies and is the only person who can make everything wonderful you are also reacting to a created image that is false.
There is no one I hate now. If someone tortured my kids or grandkids I suspect I would hate them for a long time.
Steve