As thousands of patriotic public servants are entrusted with America's most sensitive secrets, a large swath of Americans is enthralled with a corrupt ex-president & his universe of fabulism and lies.
There is a third option you appear not to have considered. The Democrats have allowed themselves to be seduced by the ages-old siren song of Global Leftism. Some in the Party are true believers for whom Donald Trump is Satan Incarnate, which means that ridding America of him is a moral imperative far higher than any petty legal or pesky Constitutional questions. All of their manufactured hysteria is just that. I, too, have dealt with varying ranges of classification and my response was always, "No, I'm good - you can spare me the Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring crap; I think I can add value on this side of the - many times arbitrarily or nefariously applied - red ink stamp." Obviously, more succinctly and politely than that.
Color me wildly skeptical that anything in President Trump's possession suddenly became a matter of urgent national security 100 days before the midterms and while the flop "January 6th: The Musical!" is failing to deliver anything but a chorus of AMENs from true believers, yawns from the majority of the country and justifiable scorn and vitriol from those of us who disdain kangaroo courts or hearings with not even a hint of due process.
Color me highly skeptical when "my" government wants to violate my Constitutional rights by disarming me, while specifically carving out from their gun bans the agents of that same Administrative State who get to own the weapons the American Left wants to strip the populace of. My family's experience in Nazi Germany is illustrative: the FIRST thing Hitler did was to seize firearms from Jews and others he didn't like.
From Hammurabi - and probably earlier - one stark truth has remained: Free people own weapons with which to defend themselves; slaves do not. Democrats can't talk their way out of people's opinions which have been formed in reaction to their actions.
Gerald Ford sacrificed his own political prospects by placing the nation's interests in healing the socius above his own reelection chances. He pardoned Richard Nixon, because like it or not, avoiding the internal divisions and external damage caused by showing the world we are a banana republic was far more important than putting some old clown in prison for trying to hide a burglary as part of political espionage. Breaking and entering and burglary are actual crimes. Again, you seem to be convinced that President Trump did something far more nefarious than - perhaps - being sloppy with records, an assertion the truth of which I have no a priori reason to believe anyway.
I'm open to rational argumentation and can be persuaded. I don't think anyone over 60 should be a candidate for President in 2024, so I'm not here cheering for Donald Trump to quit political retirement. I am deeply concerned about the disdain with which Democrats treat President Trump and his voters - that is a very bad road to go down for myriad reasons, starting with the fact that being a pointless dick is not a good look.
There is a third option you appear not to have considered. The Democrats have allowed themselves to be seduced by the ages-old siren song of Global Leftism. Some in the Party are true believers for whom Donald Trump is Satan Incarnate, which means that ridding America of him is a moral imperative far higher than any petty legal or pesky Constitutional questions. All of their manufactured hysteria is just that. I, too, have dealt with varying ranges of classification and my response was always, "No, I'm good - you can spare me the Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring crap; I think I can add value on this side of the - many times arbitrarily or nefariously applied - red ink stamp." Obviously, more succinctly and politely than that.
Color me wildly skeptical that anything in President Trump's possession suddenly became a matter of urgent national security 100 days before the midterms and while the flop "January 6th: The Musical!" is failing to deliver anything but a chorus of AMENs from true believers, yawns from the majority of the country and justifiable scorn and vitriol from those of us who disdain kangaroo courts or hearings with not even a hint of due process.
Color me highly skeptical when "my" government wants to violate my Constitutional rights by disarming me, while specifically carving out from their gun bans the agents of that same Administrative State who get to own the weapons the American Left wants to strip the populace of. My family's experience in Nazi Germany is illustrative: the FIRST thing Hitler did was to seize firearms from Jews and others he didn't like.
From Hammurabi - and probably earlier - one stark truth has remained: Free people own weapons with which to defend themselves; slaves do not. Democrats can't talk their way out of people's opinions which have been formed in reaction to their actions.
Gerald Ford sacrificed his own political prospects by placing the nation's interests in healing the socius above his own reelection chances. He pardoned Richard Nixon, because like it or not, avoiding the internal divisions and external damage caused by showing the world we are a banana republic was far more important than putting some old clown in prison for trying to hide a burglary as part of political espionage. Breaking and entering and burglary are actual crimes. Again, you seem to be convinced that President Trump did something far more nefarious than - perhaps - being sloppy with records, an assertion the truth of which I have no a priori reason to believe anyway.
I'm open to rational argumentation and can be persuaded. I don't think anyone over 60 should be a candidate for President in 2024, so I'm not here cheering for Donald Trump to quit political retirement. I am deeply concerned about the disdain with which Democrats treat President Trump and his voters - that is a very bad road to go down for myriad reasons, starting with the fact that being a pointless dick is not a good look.