The Cowardice of Normalizing MAGA

Not drawing the line will be our undoing

Before the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, there was a nice little reprieve where everybody wasn’t talking about Trump. I remember thinking that maybe that moment I had hoped for had finally come — the media and the nation had maybe started shifting focus to other things, maybe even things that were important and meaningful and did not involve the former Dumpster-Fire-In-Chief. And maybe we could forget about this evil joker and start moving towards a point where we could all try to get along again.

I remember being annoyed when the headlines were again filled with stories about the Orange Pretender. I was offended and frustrated that suddenly he was getting more attention than things that mattered, like the war in Ukraine or the actual reform and progress the Biden Administration was (slowly and stumblingly) making.

Then, instead of being annoyed, I started getting excited. It looked like maybe, finally, he was going to have to face justice.

Months later (or has it only been weeks? it’s hard to tell anymore), I have given up on that fantasy. I don’t think he will see a single day of jailtime when all is said and done. I don’t even think they will manage to prevent him from running for President again.

And what, in my humble opinion, is the problem? Cowardice.

I have read and heard people argue that you can’t impeach and imprison Trump because his followers would freak out, and even if we don’t end up with Civil War the Sequel, we would definitely see acts of violence and destruction, and such things should be avoided at all cost.

Or should they?

I have been married for almost 30 years, and a lesson I learned later than I should is this: sometimes you need to fight in order to improve the relationship. After spending years avoiding conflict by sidestepping the issues, pretending that I was okay with things when I was not, or rationalizing my way out of the debate, I figured it out. Sometimes you have to say the scary negative things out loud and throw things (literally or figuratively) so that you can get the issue out there and pave the way for calmer discussion and actual change once the dust has settled.

The United States does not currently recongize this piece of relationship wisdom, and instead is trying to make sure that nothing is said or done that could possibly upset the people who are…

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