Guernsey: Whose Side Is Trump On? – All Otsego

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Letter from Sherwood Guernsey

Whose Side Is Trump On?

This week, we remember the horror of January 6, 2021, the day an angry mob surged into our nation’s Capitol, smashing windows, breaking down doors, brutalizing the police who were trying to guard our sacred Capitol, resulting in nine deaths. We all watched it on TV as the ugly drama proceeded with no action by the president to stop it.

An officer was dragged facedown to be beaten with an American flag on a pole and another was pulled into the scrum to be kicked and stomped.

The Capitol, the seat of American democracy, was overrun and trashed for the first time since the war of 1812.

The mob weaponized Christianity to support the rampage (a truly outrageous abuse of the teachings of Jesus) and waved confederate flags (the flags of slavery).

We honor the dead and their families, the wounded, and the traumatized.

As we look ahead, let us watch carefully whose side the new president is on.

Is he with those who ravaged the Capitol, or with the rest of us law-abiding citizens?

Sherwood Guernsey
Schoharie NY native
Williamstown, MA

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  1. I think we know the answer to that. He’s the King of Chaos. Some bored numb sculls think that’s productive

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