By
David Horowitz
More
than the virus threatens us
In this spring season, America’s future is
fraught with uncertainties as a result of the pandemic unleashed by Communist
China’s malicious concealment of a virus it had apparently developed in a Wuhan
laboratory. Will the nation be able to "re-open" as the president
desires, or will it descend into a long-lasting depression with millions
unemployed?
At the same time, a much greater uncertainty
haunts the horizon. This uncertainty is a product of the ferocious hate for the
president and his supporters ginned up by the political Left ever since the
2016 election. The anti-Trump fervor is so intense it has divided the nation
into two alien camps until there is hardly any longer a national conversation,
or a united front in the face of the deadly contagion.
For anyone not in thrall to anti-Trump
obsessions, the spectacle of Trump hatred is mystifying, even unfathomable.
It’s not that the criticisms of Trump are harsh – that is the currency of
democratic politics. The problem is that they are not merely harsh but veer on
the lunatic until communication with those who voice them seems impossible. It
is why the national conversation and a semblance of national unity in the face
of threats seem almost hopeless. [more...]
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