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Garrison Keillor:
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Garrison Keillor:
In a little less than two months, we will find out something we need to know about our country, namely who we are.
An article in a current magazine argues that the Trump administration has held a mirror up to the nation and shown us how twisted and irrational and racist and violent we are and how the country needs a cultural revolution. Mr. Trump is not like anybody I’ve ever known or met, nobody I’m related to, nobody I’ve ever worked with, and if indeed he reflects this society, then it’s obvious that I don’t belong here.
What we need is not a revolution but a respect for decency and honesty. My people left Yorkshire and Holland and came to the colonies for economic reasons. Some of them were of a strict religious minority that was somewhat out of tune with the world around them but they were able to live at peace here and practice their faith and not feel persecuted.
But the evidence mounts that the man represents an impulsive, paranoid, self-gratifying, proudly ill-informed, contemptuous view of public office, and if this succeeds in November, the nation is suffering from a death wish and why would a person who loves this country want to stay around and watch more of the same awful drama?
It is horrifying to see how close the race is in Minnesota, my home state. Perhaps I know nothing whatsoever about the Midwest. If so, then who am I? It’s an agonizing time.
Joe Biden was a decent senator from a safe seat in a small state, no giant in the Senate, and Democrats were in no rush to nominate him, but the man has risen to the moment, and he has come at Trump good and hard for his sheer indifference and laziness and contempt for the Constitution, his contempt for science and for our military, his psychotic break with reality. He is waging war. Progressives might wish for more but when you're fighting for the life of the country, you don't think long term, you focus on the immediate, and in November we must rid America of this man.
We're in the hands of a showman who has no principles, no idea of what principles are, only a deep craving for attention. Pack him off to Florida and let's have a president.
By: Garrison Keillor
An article in a current magazine argues that the Trump administration has held a mirror up to the nation and shown us how twisted and irrational and racist and violent we are and how the country needs a cultural revolution. Mr. Trump is not like anybody I’ve ever known or met, nobody I’m related to, nobody I’ve ever worked with, and if indeed he reflects this society, then it’s obvious that I don’t belong here.
What we need is not a revolution but a respect for decency and honesty. My people left Yorkshire and Holland and came to the colonies for economic reasons. Some of them were of a strict religious minority that was somewhat out of tune with the world around them but they were able to live at peace here and practice their faith and not feel persecuted.
But the evidence mounts that the man represents an impulsive, paranoid, self-gratifying, proudly ill-informed, contemptuous view of public office, and if this succeeds in November, the nation is suffering from a death wish and why would a person who loves this country want to stay around and watch more of the same awful drama?
It is horrifying to see how close the race is in Minnesota, my home state. Perhaps I know nothing whatsoever about the Midwest. If so, then who am I? It’s an agonizing time.
Joe Biden was a decent senator from a safe seat in a small state, no giant in the Senate, and Democrats were in no rush to nominate him, but the man has risen to the moment, and he has come at Trump good and hard for his sheer indifference and laziness and contempt for the Constitution, his contempt for science and for our military, his psychotic break with reality. He is waging war. Progressives might wish for more but when you're fighting for the life of the country, you don't think long term, you focus on the immediate, and in November we must rid America of this man.
We're in the hands of a showman who has no principles, no idea of what principles are, only a deep craving for attention. Pack him off to Florida and let's have a president.
By: Garrison Keillor
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