capturing Trump

I found the writing below on the internet, thanks to noted atheist Seth Andrews, who shared it from another Facebooker. Thought it was worth re-printing. 

We like things that confirm our own biases, no?  I've been feeling the same as the writer lately, namely, that many of Trump's followers are not really "stupid" but are in fact kindred spirits to Trump. That is, racist, white supremacist, lying fascists who actually idolize the guy. There have probably always been people like this in America. Trump has a special talent for pulling them out of the woodwork.

“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle, violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work, grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace, treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy.

That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame.

No, I do not “respect your choices,” nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong.

Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.”

~ Advocatus Peregrini

Drawing

Stable Genius by Siegfried Woldhek, pen & ink, October 12, 2019.