In the wake of the events on Jan. 6, many have laid the blame solely at the feet of President Trump, and the senators who stalled the Congress proceedings.
President Trump's recent phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has left many criticizing his blatant use of intimidation tactics.
“Don’t give hate a platform!” This audacious remark is only one of the taglines of countless petitions launched at Twitter and Facebook in an attempt to deplatform or ban Donald Trump from their social media sites.
If we were to extract all offensive aspects of culture in an attempt to create a national “safe space,” no one's beliefs would ever be challenged and we as a society would become stagnant.
A new president has, for better or worse, been elected by the people of the United States, but as a nation we are unable, much like the president himself, to concede our partisanship and embrace a national pride and respect for our own countrymen.
It doesn't matter who you support, but it does matter that you take an active and educated role in society.
Her personal beliefs would have no impact on the rest of the country if she was a private citizen or even a US Judge in the Court of Appeals, but the circumstances change with the Supreme Court.
Hypocrisy can be quite the fickle thing.
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