President Trump is a hypocrite, not a hero. Here is why.
The 47th president has embraced a few “originalist” Republican Party principles like isolationism (create distance from NATO), protectionism (enact tariffs to promote corporate profits), and xenophobia (keep the foreigners out).
Trump is a hypocrite because he is failing to produce actual historical isolationism, since neutralist nations are supposed to be friendly to all and enemies to none, like George Washington taught.
He is failing at protectionism because he is making economic enemies of America’s best friends, like Canada and Mexico.
Finally, he is turning soft-core xenophobia into hard-core racism by encouraging unfounded crime theories about Blacks and immigrant Hispanics in the inner city and embracing domestic white supremacist groups and foreign white supremacist groups like Afrikaners from South Africa. He is nurturing flat-out religious intolerance by trying to stop brown-skinned Catholics from immigrating to America and Arab Muslims from getting college education here.
Trump betrays other important Republican principles found in the U.S. Constitution, like Congress makes all the laws, not the president, and Congress raises and allocates all the revenue, not the president. He uses outrageous methods like lying, exaggeration and misinformation. He brays about how great he is. He also is clearly out to punish anybody who does not kiss the ring.
Not only does he resort to the anti-ethical, anti-Christian philosophy that the ends justify the means, but he also uses the Leninist-Stalinist-communist axiom that “lying is justified by our objectives.”
In other words, he is not a real Republican, a real Christian, or even a real American because he doesn’t follow the path that his political principles require. He is a bad person and unworthy of the office.
Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross
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