Christians Coming Clean On Trump

IF I WERE a conservative Christian Trump supporter, my point of view would be as follows: "As a political conservative, I support, in general, Mr. Trump's agenda, his foreign and domestic proposals and enactments. I voted for him for only this reason, since better Republican candidates were made unavailable to me. However, as a Christian, and a person of good moral character, there is little or anything about Trump's personality and behavior of which I approve. His gratuitous verbal attacks against good people, his incessant lying, and his failure to condemn white supremacist movement I find appalling and disgusting. I hope and trust all his political supporters who happen to be Christians will join me in making our disapproval apparent to him, and insisting that he make the necessary changes to retain our political support." Something like that. I would be ashamed to support any politicians who speaks and behaves like Trump, even if the person held political views identical to my own, and I would make sure that when expressing my support, I never failed to qualify it with a condemnation of his or her behavior. I would be embarrassed to support someone whose lies were constant, daily, and so blatant as to inspire ridicule. I am trying to remember ever being in a situation in which a political candidate behaved in such a way as to make me feel ashamed to support him,and the answer is obvious: Bill Clinton. Although I supported many if not most of Clinton's policies, I found his behavior in teh Monica Lewinsky affair disgusting, and detrimental to the liberal cause. I remember thinking, and still thinking: We worked so hard to get a Democrat in the White House, and he can't even stay away from women and extramarital affairs for eight years,, ad devote his energies to promoting a progressive agenda." I thought Clinton should have been smart enough to know that in the modern word no president can misbehave, like Kennedy did, without the entire world knowing about it. I was angry at Clinton, and still am, for debasing teh Democratic brand. So...why do we not hear Trump supporters complaining about Trump's constant lying, his slandering of good people, and his refusal to clearly condemn the white supremacists who commit mass murders and cite him as their inspiration. Not only does Trump not condemn the mass murderers specifically for their bigoted, twisted white supremacist ideology, neither do his supporters; they seem unwilling to point to the fact that they are white supremacists, inspired by Trump. Even as we speak a petition is circulating online, insisting that the president simply condemn white supremacy. One can assume that few if any Trump supporters will sign it. We the American people of the progressive persuasion shouldn't have to do this. trump and his supporters should already have done it. Sad. Very sad, as Trump would inarticulately say. Something over sixty one million people voted for Trump. Have any of them actually issued statements criticizing Trump's obviously unacceptable behavior? I never hear about any of them doing so, and when I talk to them, or see what they have to say, its always something like "I like the fact that he speaks his mind", or, "No matter how he acts, he's better than Hillary Clinton". About half the time I mention Trump's lies to one of his supporters, the response is "what about Obama's lies", or "what about Bill Clinton's lies, or, what about Hilary Clinton's emails?" In other words, their defense of Donald Trump is to change the subject. They might as well tell me that since Richard Nixon and Warren G. Harding were unethical, there is nothing wrong with Trump being likewise.Is it pride, or is it blindness, or is it simple moral bankruptcy which prevents Trump's supporters, after two years of his presidency, from coming clean and honestly expressing disapproval with his behavior? There must be some explanation I'm overlooking, because if there isn't, I can only conclude that all sixty one million people who voted for him, and the millions who still support him are no better than he, and are in fact moral reprobates. Many of the republicans currently in the U.s. Senate served with John McCain. he was their comrade. And yet, with Trump's recent vicious twitter tweet attacks against the memory of this great America hero, not a single Republican Senator has stepped up to condemn Trump's vicious words, not one has risen to defend the memory, the honor, and the integrity of one of America's great heroes, a hero before, during, and after his time in the senate. that is beyond shameful, and perfectly in keeping with the behavior of Trump supporter all across this nation of cowardly Trump supporters. As Trump himself might say: sad, very sad.