'Unity' Doesn't Mean Covering Up the Truth About Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Others have reported on the transformation of Trump and the implication for his convention speech including Byron York writing for the Washington Examiner.
52% : Who are we to judge how Trump was affected by the experience?
48% : A chorus of MAGA supporters have joined in the opinion that "God protected Trump."
46% : What is more, the optics of the convention, however faux enlightened they may be, will not mask the real mission of Trump and MAGA, a mission that involves a different kind of political violence, that which is sponsored by the state against its opponents, those it views as undesirable and the values, standards and laws that are the bedrock of our system of government.
40% : Rather, watch carefully this week and beyond as Trump and his MAGA supporters will do what the authors of authoritarian regimes always do -- they will imply or argue directly that divisions and extreme views in America demands not only churchy words but, and here's the kicker, their strong handed leadership.
38% : So now, as we wait and see if Trump channels a new saintly side, his own party has been having trouble doing the same in the days since the shooting.
38% : And we know because we know Trump to be the number one instigator of political violence in this country, the number one contributor to the toxicity of the current environment.
38% : Trump in fact bears a major share of the responsibility for creating many of the conditions that in turn led to a shooting in which he himself was the target.
37% : We know that because Trump never apologizes for anything.
35% : Trump is the one who instigated and later celebrated the single largest act of political violence in modern American history -- the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
32% : Listen as they try to spin a narrative that not only was Trump prosecuted on behalf of his supporters but that now, he has bled for them, faced death for them.)
31% : Trump has said that a doctor who was treating his wounded ear said, as so many people do with Trump, "he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle."Let's set aside for a moment the fact that God apparently did not care so much for the life of the spectator killed at the Trump rally...or for that matter the dead in Uvalde, or at the Tree of Life Synagogue, or at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, or at Sandy Hook, or at Parkland High.
31% : But one of the most important ways we can do that is to identify those, beginning with Trump, who are sources of violence and division and to describe clearly the threat that their history, the people they surround themselves with and the words they continue to use clearly suggest they pose.
18% : When Trump and the convention participants say they are seeking unity, what they really mean is that they want Democrats to stop using words like "fascist," "authoritarian," and "criminal" to describe the MAGA-GOP's fascist, authoritarian, criminal leader.
18% : (In fact, judging from the tendencies of Trump and some of his most out-there supporters, I would be especially wary of presentations or implications that Trump didn't find Jesus, but that he actually was Jesus.
15% : He quoted Trump as saying "I think it would be very bad if I got up and started going wild about how horrible everybody is and how corrupt and crooked, even if it's true."

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