A Warning About November

Mean Girls, Brain-Dead Liberals, and Lemmings

I wrote this article just a day before the attempt on Donald Trump’s life. I held off publishing it until today. Since then, I’ve lost yet another friend who believes that Trump is the root of all evil in America and “reaps what he sows.” I asked about the innocent man who lost his life at that event, and the implication was that we must do anything necessary to destroy evil, and there will be collateral damage. I asked about whether we should not be upset that this might lead to free-for-all attempts on any politician’s life. The response was an angry diatribe against Trump, comparing him to Hitler. As someone who lost family members in the Holocaust, this comparison is particularly offensive. In four years of the Trump presidency, there were no roundups of minorities, no death camps, no attacks on foreign nations. Yet this is the mindset of today’s mainstream progressive liberal.

Just over sixteen years ago, my wife and I attended a lecture at Stanford by esteemed playwright David Mamet. I had studied writing and filmmaking and initially wasn’t impressed by Mamet’s plays. Until I saw them on stage and with great actors. In fact, several of my favorite movies—About Last Night, The Untouchables, and The Verdict—had been written by him, but I didn’t know that until years later.