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America’s #1 Pastime Is Criticizing The President
So that gets a little tricky when you’ve got a President who calls people who disagree with him guilty of treason, seemingly for that fact alone.
And calls for “Big Consequences!” for those people, and throws around the specter of “Civil War” in an attempt to get anyone with anything bad to say about him, or of which to credibly accuse him, to shut up.
But complaining about the President is a right Americans have that people in many, many other countries don’t. It seems Trump would prefer Americans didn’t either. It’s something he never quite gets, because he’s doing such a “perfect” job.
Americans take full advantage of that right to speak to power, or even just complain about little things over our morning coffee. And we should. Heck, we even complain a lot about Presidents we like, because that’s part of what they’re there for.
Sometimes it doesn’t amount to much; just blowing off steam. Sometimes it leads to massive protests and real change.
Of course, what we’ve seen over the past few days is no mere complaining, rather credible accusations of misdeeds by the President, backed up by documents he himself provided. Yet he treats it the same, just with more…