Chris Roemer: Can America survive Democrats’ attempt to keep Trump from second term? | COMMENTARY

Donald Trump bullies his way through life, feeding his ego and ridiculing anyone who fails to show him sufficient fidelity. He is petty, vengeful and divisive.

That said, Americans have the right to vote for whomever they wish, and what Democrats are doing in an attempt to prevent Trump from having a second term is far more vengeful and divisive than Trump on his worst day.

No matter how distasteful, America would survive a Trump second term. What it might not survive is the effort to keep him from having one.

Progressives tend to look down their noses at Republicans — Trump supporters in particular —  and seem to take great glee mocking people whom they call “cultists,” and who they believe are just too benighted to grasp the virtues of progressive orthodoxy and policy.

An example of this scornful attitude toward Republicans can be found in the Facebook posts of a group calling itself, “Only in Carroll County.” The name itself is belittling, implying Carroll Countians are so dimwitted and backward, the opinions its citizens hold could only have taken root here.

So, Republicans are called fascists, radicals, would be dictators … you’ve heard the insults before.

Name calling is at the core of President Joe Biden’s re-election strategy.

Regardless of the criticism or argument being made, the Democratic response is always the same — bring up Trump and disparage his supporters.

Here’s a sample of two posts “Only in Carroll County” offered last week in response to an argument that was critical of Biden and progressive policies generally.

“Imagine believing The Cabal of Criminals is the solutions to your problems,” and, “Trump is one more Big Mac away from the dirt nap as well.”

These posts, of course, do nothing to rebut the argument that was being made. Instead they resort to the lowest form of debate — mindless invective.

Par for the course.

By the way, does anyone know who is responsible for the “Only in Carroll County” posts? Is it just an individual who doesn’t think very highly of Carroll Countians? Is it someone connected to the local Democratic Party or to the Biden campaign? Maybe someone can let us know.

No matter how enlightened progressives might be, there is one thing they will never do, and that’s admit they are wrong. It’s why they are forever doubling-down on failed policies. Interestingly, it was American astronomer Carl Sagan who explained why:

“One of the saddest lessons of history,” Sagan says, “is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.”

First, progressives bamboozled themselves. Then, they went on to bamboozle the Democratic Party and the president of the United States. Now, they are working to bamboozle the rest of us.

Biden is an aging marionette dancing for the progressive wing of his party. He blows with the wind on every issue, uses the public treasury to buy votes and is seen by America’s adversaries as someone they can take advantage of.

In terms of his willingness to pander, Biden is without peer.

The president recently gave a commencement speech at Morehead College, a private, all-male HBCU in Georgia.

It’s an election year, so it’s time for Democrats to start paying attention to the African-American community again.

If the polls are to be believed, a growing number of African-Americans don’t care much for Biden and are getting tired of being taken for granted by Democrats.

Rather than offering an inspirational, empowering message to the Morehouse graduates, the president basically told those in attendance, as they enter the working world, their chances of success in a racist America are next to nothing. “Extremists closed the doors of opportunity,” he said.

How inspiring. Just the kind of thing a college graduate wants to hear on their big day.

Someone should have told the president the day belonged to the graduates and their families, not his campaign. I’m not sure using the Morehouse graduates as political props is the kind of attention African-Americans had in mind.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party has again chosen to nominate a contentious blowhard who takes pride in just how nasty he can be.

What a choice to have to make.

Four more years of Trump would be intolerable. Four more years of Biden would be disastrous.

Every fiber of my being is screaming, “A pox on both their houses,” but Democrats crossed a line when they used the judicial system to attack a political opponent, a former president who is the current president’s chief political rival.

In so doing, they moved beyond simple dirty politics to out-and-out corruption, and they must not be rewarded for their perversion of the judicial system.

I have always viewed Biden and Trump as equally unacceptable. I’ve never voted for either, and am quite prepared to vote for Robert Kennedy Jr., this time around, or sit out the election entirely.

That said, with each passing day, it becomes clearer, the worst of all possible outcomes would be Biden’s re-election.

I’m not sure where that leaves me.

Chris Roemer is a retired banker and educator who resides in Finksburg. He can be contacted at chrisroemer1960@gmail.com.