A Letter on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024

When are we going to rebel against this man who denigrates both living and dead U.S. soldiers; a man who called soldiers “losers and suckers”; a man who said this about John McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured”?

When are we going to rebel against this man who once said about visiting the cemetery near Paris, Aisne-Marne America: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers!” This is a draft dodger with so-called “bone spurs” and parental connections and money that kept him out of Vietnam; a draft evader who also referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers for getting killed”?

When are we going to rebel against a man who has not and will never “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States” and “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”; a man who is contemptuous and ignorant of the Constitution of the United States of America, specifically the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments; a man who also violates Article II, Section 1 and Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States; a man who ignores the legislative and judicial branches of government and their Balance of Power; a man who constantly attacks the U.S. Intelligence Agencies and the Rule of Law by using techniques of deceit and deflection? 

When are we going to rebel against a man who “creates and capitalizes on chaos”; a man who “has ostentatiously refused to fulfill one of his most important duties as president: protecting the nation and its political system from damaging cyber-attacks by a hostile foreign power”; a man who has heightened polarization and partisanship; a man who makes his underlings lie for him; a man who “has told subordinates and criminals that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing” they commit for him; a man who has no integrity and perpetuates lies through distraction, threat conflation, normalization and repetition to confuse and mislead his gullible followers? 

When are we going to rebel against a man who exults in bullshit; a narcissist who does not believe in morality and justice and will do everything in his power to remain in office the next time he is elected; a man who is, and who will continue to be, a serial abuser of discretionary powers; a man who, like Richard Nixon, “prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice [by engaging] personally and through his subordinates and agents in a course of conduct or plan to delay, impede, and obstruct investigations”; a man who said, “I have the right to do whatever I want”?; a man who extols Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Jair Bolsonaro, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and other despots but attacks American allies and their leaders; a dangerous traitor who wants to subvert congressional power and destroy U.S. defense and intelligence agencies when he becomes president of the United States of America?   

In short, when are we going to rebel against a callous, manipulative, mendacious, and impulsive charlatan who threatens our national security, betrays our national interest, and perverts the powers of the presidency, a bully who is going to seek revenge on his so-called “enemies”: a scoundrel who has divided our nation and will create an irreparable travesty of justice and defilement of the rights of many Americans? 

-Glen Brown