Kremer’s Corner: Trump voters should admit their mistake

Jerry Kremer

A good friend of mine once bought a new car that had the worst color purple I have ever seen.

I was doubly amazed because I had never seen a purple car except at the circus.

When I delicately told my friend that his choice was odd and not particularly attractive, he vigorously defended his selection even though many other of his buddies said the same thing.

The lesson I learned is that when people make choices and even if they are subsequently embarrassed, they won’t admit it.

In my thinking that has to be the mindset of the people who voted for Donald Trump.

I understand loyalty and I dislike people who abandon their principles and periodically change their views, depending on which way the wind is going.

But there has to be a point when people say they were wrong and we sure are close to that magic moment.

People around the country who embraced Trump, justified their choice for a variety of reasons.

Some said it was time for a businessman to run the country. Others felt they wanted someone who wasn’t always politically correct. Another group fell for the idea that Trump would shake up the political system for the better.

It’s obvious that most of those expectations have faded away. Ignoring political correctness is not a justification for daily and hourly tweeting.

Stirring the pot around the world is not how any president shakes up the system. Insulting your country’s closest allies isn’t exactly what that couple in the Mid-West bargained for.

Being a businessman was Trump’s big advantage in the eyes of quite a few of his admirers.

But now five plus months’ later people are finding out that a real estate developer isn’t that great a bargain in the White House.

Building condominiums is not basic training for deciding whether global warming is real or imaginary.

Filing for bankruptcy on multiple occasions isn’t a talent that translates into managing a thriving American economy.

They say that the best quality a leader can have is being surrounded by bright and capable people.

There is no doubt that Trump has picked some very talented Cabinet members as well as some real disasters. But ignoring the advice of your best people on critical occasions is an insult to those advisers.

Following the counsel of people like Steve Bannon instead of Rex Tillerson or Wilbur Ross is not the kind of leadership that the Trump supporters expected.

Trump ran on the slogan of “Make America Great Again” but instead he is slowly turning this country into the world’s laughing stock.

Threatening German Chancellor Angela Merkel with additional car tariffs isn’t exactly a comforting message to the 8,000 people in South Carolina who work at the BMW plant.

Nor does it make the 3,000 workers at the Volkswagen plant feel like they have job security.

No one ever expected Donald Trump to be a president with any degree of compassion.

After all he didn’t become a rich man  by  patting his lowly paid workers on their backs for a job well done.

But at no time has he shown any human feelings after bombings in Paris, London and Australia.

His condolence notes usually start out with an “I told you so.”

Insulting the Muslim mayor of London in the hours after their latest tragedy is not the sign of a man who feels any one’s pain.

It’s one thing to have your children join you on the campaign trail. It’s another thing to install your daughter and son-in-law in the White House and give the illusion that they are your closest advisors.

Jared Kushner is a nice young man but no one in America voted to make him the peacemaker between Israel and its neighbors. I can’t believe how embarrassed that couple must feel after being ignored time after time on advice they offered.

Did Americans vote for a president who would go to war with the CIA,FBI and a dozen other intelligence agencies?

I could go on and on but there has to be a tipping point when some of the Trump believers just like my friend with the purple car, confess that they made a colossal mistake.

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