All Justice, No Love
On January 20, 2025 Donald Trump took office as the 47th President of the United States of America. He used a vicious combination of fear mongering, lies, and rallying an idea of “victory” for his cult-like fandom. He invigorated the idea that if he wins then they win like putting on a football jersey meaning you’re part of the team, despite not running any plays, just being in the stands after spending hundreds on the tickets.
The reality is Donald Trump doesn’t care about the American people. He doesn’t care about any people. He cares about fulfilling his idea of justice, retribution, and revenge. He cares about getting as much money as possible for his friends. He cares about chaos. He cares about making this country a joke. And you fell for it. A lot of people fell for it. He made himself the loud victim. He’s that ex partner who tells all their friends how you cheated on them to cover up that they were abusive. He’s the parent that hides a toy and conveniently finds it to be the hero. He is all of the villains who wear a cape and claim hero. He is all justice, no love.
If you take away empathy, you can successfully create an enemy of anyone. That’s how you get a Libs of TikTok or a Charlie Kirk. That’s how you get the cynicism of Matt Walsh or the hypocritical nature of Jesse Watters. These people have no problem creating issues in their mind and spewing hatred for the sake of scaring you, making you pay to not be scared, and then generating the new boogeyman be it Wicked, immigrants, or Selena Gomez. In reality, all of these people are cowards. You want and have all the guns but you’re afraid of metropolitan cities and transpeople? His Cabinet picks are even more pathetic. Rich old people who don’t know anything making stuff up and creating more destruction. Firing people, deporting people, raising prices, and telling you you’ll be alright because you just have to wait and believe. They are all justice, no love.
And now we’re several days in with so many changes as a harbinger of doom of what the next four+ years may look like. It’s a playbook we’ve seen before. He creates massive chaos daily to where you don’t know where to put your head down, then at the end of the run he’s like, “wow, how did all of that happen, only I can fix it.” It’s already telling that lawmaker Andy Ogles and VP JD Vance are campaiging to change the Constitution and give Trump a third term. The Constitution that all of the MAGA’s were fighting to preserve and saying they stood for and they’re willing to throw it all away to let the cult continue to reign supreme. In less than 3 weeks, you’ve praised the January 6 rioters being released and already several of them have been arrested for child p*rnagraphy, one has been killed in a police incident, and others have reoffended in other ways. We’ve seen Elon Musk throw up a Nazi salute. We’ve seen two plane crashes that get blamed on “DEI” hires DESPITE these same crashes not happening in the past 18 years. We’ve seen the belittling of church officials who simply request mercy. We’ve seen the price of eggs go up, diseases be hidden from the American public, no accountability- all blame. Aren’t you tired of making excuses? Aren’t you tired of having to conjure up a conspiracy theory to deceive your own eyes and ears? You’re not winning. You’re not going to win. You’re going to lose people you love. Your friends and coworkers are going to lose people they care about. It’s not a derangement, it’s a reality that we’re all living. If it’s the fate you choose to accept because your identity is so closely tied to your politics then take out the Christian values and Jesus teachings out of your arguments because now we see through you. If you’re a parent, imagine ICE raiding and taking your children from school. If you have health issues, imagine the price of your medicine skyrocketing because a guy with brain worms doesn’t think you living is essential enough. If you are a decent human, imagine your identity, your reality, your life being eviscerated because someone who has never met you doesn’t like pronouns. If you can’t take a step outside of your own political ideaolgy, if you can’t take the red hat off or get the wool from out of your eyes enough to see that in such a short time so many awful things are setting a downward trajectory for this country then maybe you’re stuck in a place of all justice and no love. Greatness is never achieved without love. But you knew that 4 years ago. Hope that anger gets you somewhere because he certainly isn’t.