Going "all or nothing" on redistricting, impeachment and President Trump
Trump cannot legally serve a third term. The binary choice meme is done. Be a man and make a serious argument.
A prominent Indiana Republican claimed on social media a couple weeks ago that Republicans in the Indiana state senate voted to impeach President Trump. This is either an outright lie or a hysterical fantasy. None of the Republicans who voted against redistricting (which was an outright majority of Republicans in the chamber) voted to impeach President Trump.
I am so sick of this “all or nothing” garbage, which looks more like a devoted cult than a reasonable political argument. Indiana is still sending Republicans to represent seven of nine seats in Congress. This is with maps that are completely fair, with compact districts that follow county lines. Moving Indiana from a 7-2 Republican state to a 9-0 state with a ridiculous map that slices Indianapolis into several districts was never going to determine control of Congress.
Let me improve the ridiculous argument:
Indiana Republicans, knowing that Democrats in states like California and Virginia were trying to gerrymander their Congressional districts, should have responded by eliminating the remaining two Democratic seats in Indiana. We may not like gerrymandering, but we have to fight fire with fire to blunt the chicanery from Democrats. Republicans need to recognize what time it is, and they were wrong not to fight back.
See? It does not have to be “all or nothing.” No ridiculous claims about voting to impeach President Trump, or supporting Andre Carson. This is an argument that I do not agree with, but one that I can respect because it is honest.
Yes, Democrats and Leftists support a number of policies that are harmful and destructive. But “the other side is bad” is not, and has never been and will never be an argument FOR your candidate. And despite propaganda merchants on social media, conservatives not supporting President Trump over the military action against the pedophile terrorist regime in Iran does not equate to being on the same side as all of the most radical elements of the Left. Principles actually do matter, and non-interventionist Republicans are not making common cause with the radical Left simply by holding the same position they did two years ago.
There are plenty of reasons to support President Trump on policy. The “binary choice” meme is not one of them. The “binary choice” meme made sense in 2016. Given that President Trump was always going to run for re-election, you could have argued from 2017-2020 that he would be better than any of the Democrats who could be his general election opponent. You could make the “binary choice” argument for opposing Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris from 2021-2024. That is not where we are now. President Trump is one year into his second term. He can never be elected President again. Therefore, the binary choice meme is done. There is no longer any legitimate argument that we must vote for President Trump. He is judged 100% on policy. It is time for the sycophants to grow up, be men, and judge policy rather than pointing at the Democrats.