For many Americans, hearing the dark truth about this president and treating him with the contempt and distrust he deserves go against the patriotic grain.
Americans have a long tradition of treating the president with respect. This is an obstacle that those pursuing the task of stripping this president of his authority must bear in mind.
The solution to that problem is simple: it showing how respect for the presidency and disrespect for this president –far from being in conflict—are two aspects of the same patriotic impulse.
We Americans generally treat the president with a degree of respect and deference partly because our political culture teaches us to, and partly because in the course of our country’s history, most presidents have acted in at least a degree of good faith. Most of our presidents have tried to discharge their responsibility –at least much of the time, and despite an admixture of cronyism and other forms of corruption—to serve the nation.
We as a people have note been well-prepared by our history to deal with a president like this one: thoroughly dishonest, either with himself or with us, or more likely both; an instrument of forces that care nothing about the people of this country, or about the values that have constituted America’s ideal; destructive of everything he touches.
So what is needed is to clarify what it is that is worthy of respect: namely, a presidency that embodies America’s ideals and aspirations, that respects America’s most hallowed traditions (like the Constitution and the rule of law), and that takes good care to serve the people and the future good of the nation.
To respect such a presidency is to hold the present occupant of the Oval Office in contempt, to behold him with rage, to be disgusted with the enormous gap between America’s ideals and how this president has conducted his office.
We like George Washington, for his straight-forward and honest and just ways, that made him so admired and trusted by his countrymen.
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