Can anyone be surprised that former President Trump would denigrate former Secretary of State Colin Powell's memory the day after he died?
Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!
While I might not be surprised, nevertheless I shudder to think that a man capable of uttering such cruelty about another man who has just passed away and not been laid to rest once held the highest office in our land. General Powell was survived by a wife of nearly 60 years, three children and four grandchildren. What must be going through their minds when Trump spoke of him in that way? Needless to say, Trump didn't give them a moment's thought. Why would we? This is a man who gives his own family very little thought. So how could Trump be expected to extend a compassion he did not possess to someone else's family in their time of grief?
Yet we must never forget that Trump did once hold the highest office in our land because we put him there to say nothing of the significant portion of the electorate who fervently believes he still is the President of the United States. Even people who did not vote for Trump and wouldn't dream of voting for him delighted in his passing because of his role in the War in Iraq and other imagined sins. We can be a cruel people and our malevolence isn't confined to Trump loyalists.
Nevertheless, Trump has coarsened the civil discourse in this country in a way no one has ever before and we have mostly let him get away with it. Trump denigrated John McCain's heroism and the Republican Party nominated him anyway. Trump denigrated McCain in death and the Republican Party didn't so much as bat an eyelash.
Oh, there will be some anger at Trump for a bit as there was after the January 6th insurrection. But it will recede quickly and GOP officials will quickly resume currying his favor. In the Republican rank and file, there will be no anger at all. They would not only nominate him again today but would be brought to their feet if he denigrated Powell in his acceptance speech.
For all of Trump's innate cruelty towards Powell, it does serve one useful purpose. It reminds decent minded Americans how lucky we are that Joe Biden is in the White House and how we must keep him there come 2024.
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