No, I’m not going to respectfully discuss my political differences with my Trumpy neighbors, because anyone who still supports this dimwitted criminal is by definition without respect for constitutional principles, legal precedent, and human decency. Fascism is not an idea to be debated, it’s a form of violence to be eradicated.
What would “compromise” with Trump’s agenda look like? Only inciting violence against vulnerable populations on odd-numbered days? Keeping the number of illegal power grabs, sham prosecutions, and political vendettas to a reasonable level? A ban on graft, nepotism, and self-dealing after 5 p.m.?
I’m old enough to remember when opposing fascism wasn’t controversial. We don’t need to extend it the same courtesies it denies us, out of some spurious, namby-pamby notion of “tolerance.” Rather, we need to defeat it using every available legal, political, and moral mechanism, until its supporters once again learn (as they should have in 1945) that banishment from public discourse is the price of their behavior.
Luke Jaeger
Northampton