They have attempted to savage our Democracy and deaden its soul.
As a therapist, my work requires that I take a non-judgmental and open-minded view of other people, their beliefs and aspirations. I believe I have been able to do this throughout the past four years regardless of my personal beliefs.
But the right to free speech stops when it is used to incite the assault on democracy we witnessed on January 6. Trump s actions and words have indeed incited domestic terrorism.
This is not the way any of the many, many Republicans I knew throughout my youth would have acted. Nor is it the way the Democrats with whom they had respectful, collegial, citizen serving relationships would have. Our family benefited immeasurably from the advocacy of both a Democrat and a Republican before my Dad died of a service-connected disability.