I know everyone suffers from Trump fatigue. However, everyone needs to read the transcript of Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore. It is time to face exactly what he has become and what he is about. What he has evolved to become from what many of us already found unacceptable. In his speech commemorating the birth of our country, a day where we normally come together, he has given a speech of hate that I would not have thought possible from an American president 2 days ago, let alone 4 years ago. He has laid bare what his movement is about. It is not about being mad at Washington. It is not about wanting a change. This is not 2016 Trump as much as many of us disagreed with that version. This is an entirely new animal. For many of us, this development may have been predictable, but it is striking nonetheless how deep into cliche hatred he has forged.
Democrats. It is time to put aside our squabbles and concentrate on the task at hand. For me, my checkbook is about to open liberally for this election.
Independents. Moderate Republicans. Conservative Republicans. It is time to face what this choice is about. There is plenty of time to debate economic policy, government regulation, etc. Sometimes you have to stand up for more basic principles. Not voting is just not an option. There are things that are worth voting against even if you don't like the option you are voting for. I wish we had a candidate that represents the policy beliefs of everyone out there. We do not. For those of you who do not have a candidate speaking for them, I ask you to consider putting policy aside one time and instead use your vote to speak for something different. Our country cannot stand 4 years of this. Make no mistake, those 4 years will be far more divisive than the first 4.
For those that read Trump's speech and determine he is still the man for you, I'm sorry, but we have come to a parting of the ways.
Some excerpts are below. Honestly, there are things I just cannot believe didn't make the cut. This is how Trump chooses to celebrate the birth of our country.
Read this speech. He is calling us to make a choice, and a choice we must make.
Democrats. It is time to put aside our squabbles and concentrate on the task at hand. For me, my checkbook is about to open liberally for this election.
Independents. Moderate Republicans. Conservative Republicans. It is time to face what this choice is about. There is plenty of time to debate economic policy, government regulation, etc. Sometimes you have to stand up for more basic principles. Not voting is just not an option. There are things that are worth voting against even if you don't like the option you are voting for. I wish we had a candidate that represents the policy beliefs of everyone out there. We do not. For those of you who do not have a candidate speaking for them, I ask you to consider putting policy aside one time and instead use your vote to speak for something different. Our country cannot stand 4 years of this. Make no mistake, those 4 years will be far more divisive than the first 4.
For those that read Trump's speech and determine he is still the man for you, I'm sorry, but we have come to a parting of the ways.
Some excerpts are below. Honestly, there are things I just cannot believe didn't make the cut. This is how Trump chooses to celebrate the birth of our country.
Read this speech. He is calling us to make a choice, and a choice we must make.
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Make no mistake. This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress. To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage
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Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains
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1776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western civilization and the triumph of not only spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason. And yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they're doing this, but some know what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive, but no, the American people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history, and culture to be taken from them
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One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and to our values and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America
This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty must be stopped and it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation's children from this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life. In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It's not going to happen to us.
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The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal Democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.
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Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America's destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not a better America, their goal is to end America.
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In its place, they want power for themselves, but just as patriots did in centuries past, the American people will stand in their way and we will win and win quickly and with great dignity.
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Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights. They would tear down the beliefs, culture and identity, that have made America the most vibrant and tolerant society in the history of the earth. My fellow Americans, it is time to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully and defend the integrity of our country
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Americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago, that we will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen