It's a Bad Time for the American Moderate

It's tough to name an exact start date; many trace it to the moment Donald J. Trump went down that Manhattan escalator. But as a lifelong student of American history, I'm of the belief that American politics have always been a volatile and angry home for evil.

Today, citizens of this country are shot in the streets by federal agents. Regardless of if they are disrupting the judicial process, the escalation of violence by the Trump Administration's new variant of ICE seems excessive even to many Republicans. The rise of Illegal Immigration created a great deal of issues for America, but the violent removal of illegals seems to have only created more.

Meanwhile, the long awaited release of the "Epstein Files" has come to fruition and they contain some of the most wild and insane stories imaginable ranging from video game network bans all the way to child cannibalism. The mind of the reader drifts from "Alex Jones was right?" to "They are putting fake stories in there to cloud the real ones". Congress has held in contempt, a President and First Lady that haven't been in the White House in over 25 years over their connections to Epstein and refusal to answer questions about it.

The Moderate and Independent Americans find themselves caught watching what I have dubbed the evil game of ping pong, as the Right and Left take shots back and forth at each other with the most awful inexcusable actions, which they then attempt to excuse. Everyday Americans who feel so passionately that their political side is right attempt to justify ICE shooting a man to death in the streets of Minneapolis by saying he "shouldn't have had a gun near law enforcement." This take is especially interesting following decades of defending the 2nd Amendment from any degree of regulation. Meanwhile the Left finds themselves attempting to justify raiding a church service, and even the assault and occasional killing of federal law enforcement.

The moderates on both sides are attacked from those with whom they share many values. The Left attacks their moderates because they are "condoning genocide", and the Right attacks their moderates saying they are "RINOs" and "basically liberals" just because they think perhaps it's too far for ICE to empty a magazine into the chest of a VA hospital employee.

Donald Trump campaigned on lowering prices, fixing the Illegal Immigration problem, and "Saving America". So far his term has consisted of: the ICE vs Rioters quasi-war fought on the streets of major U.S. Cities, rewriting Presidential history with custom descriptions of US Presidents posted on the walls of the White House, the Murder of Charlie Kirk, Epstein-mania, "loyalty testing" Federal workers, the kidnapping of Maduro, the introduction of DOGE (which seemingly managed to cut a ton of federal spending and then just wasting the money in other places), and the slightest of drop in gas prices and taxes.

And I voted for him, so I'm not criticizing this President out of hatred. I'm just making an honest assessment of what I have seen. But more-so, I'm concerned for our nation. When we can't have a spectrum of opinions and beliefs and become violent and hostile to one another, there isn't much hope for Democracy. We need peace for our country, and I'm beginning to wonder if that can be possible with our current politicians, with Trump in particular. Our nation's leaders need to be people who can disagree calmly, not berate one another, and not celebrate the Murder of Hollywood directors.

The Question I have yet to answer, can Donald Trump's Presidency ever overcome his biggest flaw? Or will Trump's lack of character tear his legacy down and potentially the American Democratic process with it.