FOLLOWERS
I am really sad that some of my family members, friends, good friends, Christian friends, even my best friend, have chosen to follow the Trump train. I am saddened not so much because I disagree with his politics (I actually think some of the policies that were passed during his time in office were positive, though I question how much he actually had to do with them.) I am more saddened by their blind faith in a man that is clearly the antithesis of all they have proclaimed in years passed to hold dear: high morals, a belief in democracy, a conservative agenda, etc. I haven't always agreed with them politically, but it is sad to see people wantonly abandon their own ideals to follow a man who is as illogical, unastute, capricious, erratic, amoral, and clouded by his own power and ego as Trump is. Some people have compared Trump to Hitler. I do not think he is like Hitler en toto. Hitler had a well-thought out albeit flawed and dangerous ideology born over decades, and he had a str...