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 undermined the Rule of Law; 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 traitor who will become the president of the United States of America once again?   

In short, when are we going to rebel against a callous, manipulative, mendacious, and impulsive man 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? 

Don't abandon your hope. 

-Glen Brown