To be fair, this is the United States of America. People are allowed to believe what they choose. Of course, this is more of a centrist or progressive view.
The right believes that in 2016, San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick disrespected America when he chose to kneel on one knee during the playing of the national anthem. He described his behavior as a "... protest against racial injustice" in the United States. Seems like a logical position to me!
President Trump rather than acknowledging Kaepernick's right of peaceful protest chose to make the action a conservative rallying cause. Perhaps he did so out of true conviction. It's far more likely he wanted to gain political support and deflect attention from the litany of probes into alleged campaign abuse and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
There's an old saying that "if we fail to learn from history we are doomed to repeat it."
At this point, no one knows for sure all of the abuses that have been perpetrated on the U.S. public or if our great experiment in democracy is in dire peril. While there's lots of evidence of crime and findings and pleadings of guilt, we can't be sure of the depth and breadth of treachery.
Each of us as independent thinkers have the opportunity to use Woodward's book as a jumping-off point to begin an independent evaluation of the Trump administration.
It's to be expected that those on the right will not be swayed in their belief that there is a deep government conspiracy against Donald Trump. This despite the fact that the numerous "anonymous leakers" about Trump's incompetence come from within his own personally picked army of White House staffers.
Citizens on the left are unlikely to believe that the President is not guilty of heinous crimes against our democracy and particularly minorities and the disenfranchised.
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