On Trump
30 March 2020
A couple of days ago on Facebook I shared an
article by Richard Wolfe in The Guardian, titled “No Greater Love Hath Trump than to Lay Down
Your Life for his Re-election” (you don’t need to read it to follow this
discussion), to which one of my Australian friends commented:
"Can you explain please why Trumps’ approval rating is at an all time high? Are Americans totally mad?"
Which got this reaction from a loved one in the
USA:
"because we the people think President Trump is the first one in years that gives a damn about us and not about making himself richer at our expense. I don’t know why the Australian people have such a dislike of President Trump and thought President Obama was the best President the United States of America ever had. So, perhaps while we are boggling y’all’s minds y’all are boggling ours. Just saying."
There were two follow-ups expressing agreement
and gratitude for these observations. One of them then posted this:
"HOW...