The Enemy of Your Enemy

 I never thought much of Donald Trump as a human being, but his behavior since election day has been far worse than I would have guessed. It has been so bad, dishonest, arrogant, un-presidential, and harmful that people need to be reminded to be careful not to make the naïve mistake of assuming that because one  person is very bad, his enemies must be good or at least acceptable.  For  Democrat politicians are neither.

Their wrongheaded and often dangerous plans, agendas and prejudices are well known. Besides that, many of them are  repulsive, hypocritical phonies and con artists. They condemn the rioting  by Trumpist goons Wednesday but  were unbothered and  sometimes  supportive when leftist thugs rioted and looted in cities around the country during  summer.   (The  mess in Washington Wednesday was as much “mainly peaceful” as the events they defended all summer.) They criticize Trump’s stirring up his mob with false stories about a stolen election but were happy to stir up mobs they liked with  false claims that George Floyd’s death was  due not a handful of bad cops but to an imagined systematic racism pervading the country. They claim concern over  Trump’s  threat to their beloved American democracy after embracing  the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization in apparent unconcern for the fact that dictatorships of the proletariat  are not big on democratic elections.  They correctly worry about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies but are unbothered  by the way that their mayors and governors often arbitrarily, sometimes  needlessly, and occasionally  simply meanly  ordered people around and disrupted  their lives during the epidemic.  Pelosi casually calls Trump’s riot a manifestation of “whiteness”  but would demand the resignation of a Republican politician who called the trouble this summer an example of blackness.

Trump will be gone in a few days.  The Dems will still be around – more powerful and with some unpleasant  things on their minds.  People need to be alert and see them for what they are. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. Sometimes he is just another flavor of enemy.