Denial is something I understand on a personal level…and many of my Republican friends are in serious denial right now if they have been watching the hearings or news of the hearings. DJT very clearly abused their trust in the job of POTUS. It’s like finding out your adored father, wife or uncle is not at all who you thought they were.
You find out you’ve been cheated on and lied to…and then you’re supposed to be ok with it. Trump literally did everything he could to remain in power, short of calling out the military. So what happens next ?
This will be a process that takes awhile. There will be anger. There will be finger pointing. There will be folks who aided and abetted trying to survive as best they can. There will be folks who actually get honest and get a clear view of what’s real. There will be some loyalists and old friends who will stand by their man, come hell or high water…but not a lot of those.
Once I got over my denial…my “I know they treat others poorly, but they would NEVER do that to me”…I spent some “me time” to work through it…and then you confront them with the facts and evidence. That’s when they deny it at first…hoping against hope they can continue the lie. But there comes a time they understand that you really do know the facts…and the lie will not work any longer. Now that’s a moment.
I tried to work it out for awhile. To fix it, for the family…to not loose everything. But the damage was done…and honestly, they did not change…they just got more secretive.
Then there comes a time, you say…at least I said…”I’m done here…I’m not going down with this ship”. And you abandon ship and find a lifeboat. At least that’s what the survivors will do.
I was able to confront my “problem person” head on. One to one. It was hard. But necessary for me to do. These Republican friends of mine can’t really do that with DJT can they?
So what comes next? Is there anything creative and loving we can do? Besides say “I told you so.” How do we heal? Can we heal ? That’s the question for most of us. What does being an American mean? How do we go forward together ? Is it possible ?
Trumps pages in the history books are writing themselves. J6 is a much bigger chapter than “Watergate”. That was paranoia…this is greed and lust for power…and a personal belief that you just can’t lose…ever, to anyone.
To end this story, my ex is very isolated and alone…most of the rest of us are just fine without her…and there was a time I could not imagine that outcome. Life goes on.
Unfortunately, allegiance to DJT has reached religious proportions for much of the core. It is a faith value, and at that point there is no reasoning. Facts truly do not matter because faith is belief in things unseen. “In the shoals and eddies of independent thought one encounters of the beast.” - quoting a journalist from several years ago. Sorry I don’t have the exact reference. Being from the deep south, and having grown up in the evangelicalBaptist church, I’m quite familiar with how it works.
I agree, Donald lives in a different time and we can't compare apples and oranges, but the total disregard for the wellbeing of his compatriots is certainly similar.