“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.” The 2016 Presidential election
of Donald Trump produced the wedding of Bible Belt social conservatives
and a flamboyant New York Billionaire with a legitimately questionable
history of less than “Christian” moral social values. But the wedding of
these “strange bedfellows” appears to be working out quite well—at
least for the time being. As presidential politics swing from the
extreme left (Obama) to the extreme right (Trump), each political camp
begins to make a similar complaint—a complaint about what each camp
(left or right) views as a deliberate encroachment upon their basic
rights as Americans. Conservative and/or Tea Party types on the right
or progressives and/or Resistance types on the left both have similar
complaints. When “their” party is out of power, they both view the
incumbent President to be the very essence of evil.
They view the
incumbent as an immediate and dangerous threat to their concept of
“their” country. Today, while liberals/progressives are vocally and at
times violently denouncing Trump’s contemporary America—Conservatives
can recall how Obama would declare: “That’s not who we are!” while
thinking to ourselves: “
You (Obama) do not represent who we are!”
Under the Trump Administration, the left is leading the fight against
the power of the White House. During the Obama Administration, the right
was fighting the power of the White House—hampered, of course, by
establishment Republicans whose primary goal was to stay in office while
maintaining the status-quo that provides the establishment types
(Democrats and Republicans) with immense power, perks, and privileges.
