I thought I was pretty leftie. I supported Sanders from 2015 into 2016. Voted HRC. Strongly support Sander’s platform. I also detest Trump and his entire corrupt, regressive, damaging Administration.
I’m definitely not a HRC-lover (sorry to all those here who are), and not even a Dem after 40 years of that registration (and precinct chair). I can find plenty of fault with BHO and some in his Admin over the 8 years. But I get the part where options are limited and you go with the best that is offered and try to move the ball down the field a bit.
On Facebook I pretty much lost an acquaintance who is so far Left that he kinda apologizes for Trump. He thinks of Trump as a peace-maker with Russia and who will prevent nuclear anhililation. Sigh.
He published on his page this letter www.commondreams.org/… that I thought was well meaning but a bit empty for all the intellectual heft of the signers. This friend likes to spout about
“neo-McCarthyism”. Sigh. At other sites with these Leftie-lefts they think Trump is being demonized. “Where’s the proof he’s done anything?”. Sigh again.
So when I found this piece at Counterpunch — of all places — I was happy to see that I wasn’t alone in noticing this curious phenomena. I think it comes from a reflexive hate of Democrats and a brain-numbing amount of “whataboutisms”.
“Trump may be an orange-faced ignoramus peddling xenophobic and racist demagogy like knock-off Louis Vuittons in Chinatown, but at least he’s trying to make peace. What do you want, nuclear war?”
Some variation of this many-headed hydra of inane analysis is often trotted out to deflect criticism of Trump, typically wrapped in the silky veneer of Facebook radicalism from a number of self-proclaimed leftists. And while liberals knit ever more pussy hats for the inevitable flashmob of political nothingness, a relatively small, yet zealously self-important, segment of the left demands that much legitimate criticism of Trump be viewed as liberal talking points unleashed by the Deep StateTM to scuttle Trump’s long march to peace.
Anyone else losing leftie friends over this? If you have any other articles to link to that dissect this phenomena I’d appreciate reading it.