The last weeks of conservative policy have been filled with demonstrations of fear and cowardice, pushing holes in their facade as hard (and Galts).
For example, the main assistant of the White House, Stephen Miller
Praising the installation by Trump of the federal police forces and members of the National Guard in the national capital, Miller explained“For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the street. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being stolen or agitated. They wear their watches again.”
Each year, millions People visit Washington and have no problem with the parks. Small babies are there. People wear watches.
The deployment of Trump in the city was a serious affront for the inhabitants, in particular the large black population of the city, but it also revealed a lie at the center of republican fear. The National Guard on the ground Consequently focuses on garbage collection And respond to traffic accidents, despite the apocalyptic rhetoric of the administration.
The most publicized crime that the deployment has managed so far is A sandwich launcher They could not convince a great jury to charge them.
The law has invested a lot in their image as the strongest people in American policy. From red hats Maga to George W. Bush fanboys wearing cowboy hats, the conservative movement kissed “macho” Like its aesthetics for decades.
But more often than not, they were absolute cowards, displaying weakness on a multitude of problems faced by the Americans.
For example, when the AIDS / HIV crisis began to haunt the country in the 1980s, the president of the time, Ronald Reagan, did not face the problem directly. Because the disease has surfaced for the first time in the LGBTQ +community, and this is where the majority of deaths initially occurred, Reagan ignored the problem.
Behind closed doors, his team tragedy. In public, he Barely say a wordRefusing to have the courage to expose compassion and basic humanity for his American compatriots because they were gays.
The religious right has also embraced homophobia, attacking LGBTQ + people for the alleged sin of their existence. One of the most eminent fanatics of the movement was the Reverend Jerry Falwell, a key ally of the Republican Party which whipped a homophobic frenzy while pushing to deliver votes for the party.
But Falwell was a coward. In 1991, after being faced with counter-demonstrators, Falwell moaning at Los Angeles Times“Everyone at the hotel was afraid. I think they intended to hurt me.” A decade later, Falwell (and his compatriot Coward Pat Robertson) was busy blaming September 11 terrorists against homosexuals, abortion and feminists.
Former President George W. Bush, on the 9/11 watch in which, liked to kiss the hard aesthetics. He laid in a cowboy hat on his ranch and describe Al-Qaida terrorists as “criminals”. But homosexual marriage terrified it.
Bush was so afraid of people entering a wedding that, in 2004, He supported A constitutional amendment that would limit marriage rights to opposite sex couples. He described it as a “serious affair of national concern”. In the right media, Bill O’Reilly, then a host on Fox News, issued serious warnings To its viewers, legal homosexual marriage would lead to marriages with dolphins, goats, turtles and other animals.
Years later, when the Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage, the only “serious question” was the size and scope of marriage cakes.
Bush was also at the forefront of sharing his fear with the public. His administration pushed a Color Code Terrorism alert system. It is a manifestation of cowardice that has permeated its administration, leaving the capture of the brain of September 11 Osama bin Laden to his successor, President Barack Obama.
Bush’s signature policy – Iraq’s disastrous invasion –was fearful Al-Qaida and their nonexistent alliance with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
National Conservator Rifle Association Buisson style fascinated More than a decade later, telling their supporters in 2014 that they needed firearms because activists of the Islamic State group, commonly called Isis, could be outside their house.
Trump’s cowardice was exposed throughout his career as a political character. He launched his first presidential campaign by speaking of his fear of Mexican immigrants, citing the absurd need For a border wall to protect themselves against them. There seems to be nothing that Trump is more afraid than people with brown skin, especially if that person Former President Barack Obama is he. Trump still invokes Obama as a Boogeyman more than eight years after the departure of the Democrat’s office.
More recently, trying to strengthen Trump’s actions against DC, the republican representative Tim Buchett du Tennessee said he Sleeping in his office Because he is so afraid of residents of Washington. Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin praised that He breaks local laws and does not lead with a seat belt at DC, because he saw what the constant terror of being diverted.
Conservatism is to demolish things, not to build them. The prefers movement spread wild fantasies on American cities as an urban infernal landscapes instead of admitting that cities were at the forefront of American innovation on several questions focused on the community.
The law could examine these policies and leaders and find ways to implement them in rural and suburban areas, but they are too afraid to admit that their ideas simply did not work. This is a great reason why they embrace fear and cowardice.
Damolizing the other has always been the easy solution. Degree human beings, using the power of the state to stop ideas and voices outside – that’s what cowards do.
And this is what Trump’s conservative movement at the top and all along, does every day of his existence.
