In case you don’t know who David Frum is, he is a conservative commentator and former speech writer for GW Bush. Let’s just state for the record that I am not a fan of David Frum’s ideology, but I do respect his intelligence and the way he presents his case. I also love the way he has rejected Trump as not only a non-conservative that threatens his party’s values, but as an entity that threatens American values. In Sam Harris’s latest podcast, Frum brilliantly states this case for even the simplest among us. I’m even advocating for you to follow his Twitter feed, which is chock full of daily affirmations that the Trump presidency is a disaster for America.
What I like about his commentary, as I mentioned, is that he simplifies the issues in a nice, neat package and one-lines them so that they are easy to digest. He understands the long-term implications and, can easily relate them fairly to previous administrations. For example, he will state that he never voted for Obama and never would, but he at least saw him as a man of integrity. In Trump, he sees no such thing.
He also sends a clearer, more hopeful message – that we can have intelligent debates about policy and ideology by discussing facts and by being mature; we can talk about issues without being tribal and over protective of our egos. This is an important message especially for all of those conservatives who got on the gold-plated Trump train and are now heading off the cliff they see coming miles away. They probably figure Trump can make a deal with gravity. That’s how dug in they are.
I would love to get back to a time and place where that can happen again, but I only see it getting worse in the future and I blame it on our short attention spans and our love for reality TV. We no longer like to think for ourselves and think critically about anything. We just want information fed to us and we want to lay back, be simpletons, and let the Idiocracy take over. Sad!
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