I recently came across an article titled, “Anti-Trump Burnout: The Resistance Says It’s Exhausted.”
This headline confuses me, because people who are anti-Trump are the opposite of the resistance. They are the authority. They are the establishment. They are the people who run the institutions of our society, who hold the power. They are, as hippies would say, the “man.”
This headline is a contradiction in terms, because in reality, Trump and his supporters are the resistance.
That’s why people were arrested en masse for protesting at the Capitol building in support of him on January 6, 2021.
That’s why one of those protesters was killed by a police officer, and why society almost unanimously reacted to her death by viciously insulting, condemning, ridiculing, and shaming her as opposed to the police officer who killed her.
That’s why Trump was banned from all of the major social media networks.
That’s why he has been charged in four different criminal cases.
That’s why states have removed his name from their ballots.
That’s why the term “MAGA Republicans” – an abbreviation for Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” – is used as an insult.
That’s why it is considered socially unacceptable to say that you support Trump, or that you voted for him.
That’s why, when hundreds of people personally attacked me on social media for expressing my support for statues, one such person noted the fact that I had once retweeted a pro-Trump post and summarily classified me as “human garbage.”
Nothing could be more twisted, or more wrong, than to call the people who control society and use their power to harm and oppress others, the resistance.
It’s also completely lacking in empathy that the so-called “resistance” – which in reality is the anti-resistance – would characterize itself as “exhausted.” There is nothing exhausting about holding all of the power in society and using it to harm and oppress other people. Trump and his supporters are the ones being harmed and oppressed. We are the ones with no power. We, and not the people harming us, have reason to be exhausted. The anti-resistance has nothing to complain about: if harming and oppressing others is so exhausting to you, then stop doing it.