Is This The End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? [View all]
Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump?
Loathing him has been a passion, an addiction, a compulsion. Let impeachment be the last hurrah.
By Keith Olbermann
Feb. 12, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/trump-impeachment-media.html#click=https://t.co/F858Vxmy93
"I hated Donald Trump when hating Donald Trump wasn’t cool. My credentials date back to Dec. 15, 1983, when CNN sent me to cover a public forum featuring the moguls of four New York sports teams..."
"Would the hate be better addressed and the nation be better served by a long and meticulous public investigation into the attack on the Capitol or even the entire Trump presidency, shaped something like the Watergate hearings, the Army-McCarthy hearings and the 9/11 commission? Or are the wounds too new to be thoroughly reopened? If we’d had television and Ken Burns then, would his “The Civil War” documentary have been a must-watch in 1866? Of course, there is already historical revisionism about Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 conspirators. Any sense that we might be too quick to relive the nightmare must confront the reality that the proverbial first draft of history often becomes the final version with only minor edits."
"Ultimately, if this latest spasm in the greatest-ever threat to democracy doesn’t ease the hate, it will not be because we who loathe Mr. Trump are exhausted or traumatized or healing. It may be because even if 17 Republican senators were now to shock the world, there’s really nothing they can do to Donald Trump that we would feel would suffice."
"The only thing we actually want to watch is the criminal trials. In which case, the worldwide popcorn shortage might be an extinction-level event."
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