Ecclesiastes (3:7) says there is "a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak,” and the time for Americans to speak was yesterday. Yesterday, on June 16, 2015 for example, somebody should have spoken out when a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America said, “”They’re (immigrants) bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists…”. Yesterday, on July 18, 2015, somebody should have spoken out when Trump said of John McCain, “He’s not a war hero.” Yesterday, on October 31, 2015, somebody should have spoken out when he tweeted, “The Wall Street Journal loves to write badly about me. They better be careful or I will unleash big time on them….”. Yesterday, on December 2015, for example, somebody should have spoken out when he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. Few said anything at all. It was just yesterday, November 8, 2016, that we failed to speak loud enough, and Donald Trump became “the fifth person in U.S. history to become president while losing the nationwide popular vote.”
It was just a recent yesterday, March 11, 2019, (every “thinking” American should have cringed and shouted from the top of every hill and mountain and skyscraper), when Mr. Trump issued “a bizarre, indirect warning that his supporters could get ‘tough’ on his political enemies at a ‘certain point,’ in a clip of a Breitbart interview.” These are his words, “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.” And few said a mumbling word, not Republicans, Democrats, pundits, or citizens. I’m stunned by this, even more stunned than I’ve been by the silence that attended all those other yesterdays!
No wonder I’m grateful to Meghan McCain who does speak out every time her father, the late Sen. John McCain, is attacked by Donald Trump. He did it again just yesterday. Meghan did not mince words in her response—“No one will ever love you the way they loved my father,” she tweeted. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him. Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing with mine?” Thanks, Meghan, for speaking—for shouting back—for resisting—for “overthrowing the existing order,” which we all should be doing vigorously.
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