TRUMP IN AMERICA
“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
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