Remember standards, Republicans?
Then came my moment of clarity. Holding my 3 year-old daughter at the time, I heard Trump brag about sexually assaulting women. Suddenly, it wasn't cool or fringe to vote for Trump. It was icky. I didn’t vote for him. I left it blank, still unable to vote for Hillary. (Biggest political mistake of my life by far.)
I live in the middle of America, and I'm considered a liberal for not being part of the MAGA movement. I would like to believe in conservatism. But what do you do when the supposed leader of your values shatters every standard you thought existed? Either standards matter, or they don’t.
I’ve watched people I once thought grounded contort themselves to defend Trump. They excuse the lies, the cruelty, the incompetence, the racism, sexism, and bigotry. They shrug off all the scandals. The man behaves like a caricature of everything wrong with power, and somehow, they see it as a strength.
Also, you know those super friendly, 'business-minded' people claiming they had to vote for Trump for financial reasons? Economists favored Harris's plan. Some of those friendly people, I think, weren't worried about the economy. They were worried about the black lady.
Kind of a side note: one thing I really wasn't expecting to learn from going down my 9ish year-long anti-Trump road was how absolutely absurd Fox News really is. And it is.
Trump is a convicted felon. He was found liable for rape by a jury of his peers. He's a racist, a bigot, a liar, and a cheater. I'm no liberal. But I'm not blind. And I suppose I have some standards.
