A Regular Guy I’m not a fancy writer. I’m not a historian. I’m just a regular guy watching all this, and the more I look at Trump’s behavior toward the military, the more it makes my blood boil. It wasn’t just one comment or one moment. It was a pattern, a long, ugly pattern of disrespect toward the people who served, the people who sacrificed, and the oath he swore to uphold. And once you start seeing that pattern, you can’t unsee it. It’s everywhere. It’s in the way he talks about soldiers, the way he mocked them, the way he acted like their injuries were no big deal. It’s in the way he treated the uniform like a costume he could slip on for attention. It’s in the way he treats the oath like it's just some words he had to say to get the job. Millions of Americans answered the call to serve. Some volunteered. Some were drafted, and the draft wasn’t optional. Plenty of men didn’t get deferments or special treatment. They didn’t get excuses. They didn’t get a doctor’s note. T...
“The America We Were Taught, and the America We’re Becoming” We grow up hearing a certain story about America, a story about freedom, liberty, and justice for all. We hear it from our teachers and our parents; the flag hanging in every classroom is the symbol for it. We’re told this country was built on the idea that no one stands above the law. Not kings. Not presidents. Not billionaires. And for a long time, that story held up. Not perfectly, but well enough that you could believe in it. But lately, it feels like we’re watching that story crack, not because the principles were wrong, but because too many people with power decided the rules didn’t apply to them. The Successes We Should Still Be Proud Of For more than two centuries, America pulled off something rare: the peaceful transfer of power. Presidents stepped aside when the people chose someone else. No matter how bitter the election, the Constitution won. That was broken by Trump, but it is still something that ...