The infantile Donald J. Trump has never, and will never, take responsibility for mistakes. Thus, with no evidence, he and Predatory Pete blamed Biden and DEI for the first major airplane disaster in over fifteen years. They have “common sense” and no facts.
I encourage the Trump voters to be more grown up and, as the evidence is developed, entertain the likelihood that the new administrations’ action may have played a significant role: they fired the head of the FAA and the TSA, they froze federal hiring despite the understaffed ATC, and they threatened all federal employees, including presumably the controller trying to do two jobs, while distracting them by offering them a buyout. If you were a Trump voter, own at least his, and your, possible role.
And if a relative’s brown child is now being taunted at school and told they will be deported, own it. Hate may begin at the top, but it filters down.
The same is true if you know or hear of gay or trans kids who feel threatened and find their lives disrupted. Own your role, and that of our Legislature, in increasing their stress.
And since it turns out the “criminals” we have deported in recent days weren’t really guilty of anything more than crossing the border in search of safety and a better life, and in many cases were just children, own it.
And when the bird flu threat becomes a reality- (hope it doesn’t) because the analysis of its current threat status couldn’t be published and any further research is stopped, own it.
And when the banking crisis hits the financial system after the proposed reduction in bank regulations is actualized, own it.
I believe that many Trump voters, in their dissatisfaction with the world of 2024, sincerely hoped that his election would improve their lives, as well as others’. My hope is that these Trump voters are more mature than he is. As the mistakes and problems of Trump grow, may they take some responsibility for their role in these problems (I’d be happy to list the Biden mistakes I take some responsibility for).
This just might lead them in 2026 to vote for people who want to solve problems rather than the Project 2025ers bent on destroying the institutions and norms that have protected us all, even if imperfectly.
Maybe then we can excise this infantile MAGgot: blaming rather than owning mistakes.
Ken Jameson, Salt Lake City
