Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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We have a long road ahead of us. While I think criminals who wreaked havoc on this country over the last 4 years should be prosecuted in full, it’s equally important in order to create the world we want on the other side of this that we try to dwell with compassion in our hearts.
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All of the above are true. It’s not an either/or, it’s a both/and. I was saying publicly he’s a fascist before almost anybody else was. I’ve never been naïve about Donald Trump.
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I don’t disagree with that. But I still see the tragedy there. They’re not mutually exclusive. The president of the US is probably the greatest power in the world for doing the greatest good, and he was devoid of aspiration to do that. That is a tragedy.
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It’s not naïve at all. I didn’t say he’s not a criminal and I have argued repeatedly for his prosecution when out of office.
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Feeling sorry for someone & feeling an impersonal compassion are different things. I totally do not feel sorry for him - and I want him held accountable - but at the same time I want to enter 2021 without the toxicity of the negativity I have felt in my heart over the last 4 yrs.
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Both can be true. Believe me, I think he should be held accountable to the full extent of the law. But even then he’s a tragic figure.
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I agree - that’s his presidency though. I’m just looking back over the ark of his public persona and I don’t remember it starting out that horrible. But others have pointed out that the Central Park Five was in 1989 so maybe anything better was just a sham and I didn’t see it.
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No, he was and still is a malignant presence. Even now he is undermining our democracy in every way he possibly can.
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3/ For so long – and I know, we still have 40 some odd days to worry about – he was such a malignant presence that all some of us could think about was how to get him out of the WH. Now that his presidency is waning, I think of him less as a danger and more as a human tragedy.
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2/ He changed over the years. It was apparently Kushner who convinced him that playing the hate card would get him elected president. I tend to think if he had stayed who he was, he still might have won in 2016 & he’d probably be headed for a second term now.
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1/ I remember interviews of Trump in the 1980s & he wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t someone I would’ve voted for for president but he had a reasonableness about him. He wasn’t horrifying.
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“Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.” - President John F. Kennedy
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