There are some questions that don’t have easy answers. Do we really have free will or is our every move predetermined — perhaps by a superior being? What happens after we die? Is there life as we know it in galaxies far, far away?
And the most puzzling question of all, at least for “enlightened” liberal and progressive elites: Why the heck do so many Republicans adore a man like Donald Trump?
They just can’t figure that one out. They see Trump as a threat to democracy and can’t understand why his supporters don’t just finally toss him over the side. I’ve had liberal friends tell me they’re stunned by how many Republicans still support a man they literally despise.
Full disclosure: I sat out presidential elections in 2016 and 2020 because I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Donald Trump — the first two because they’re Democrats and Trump because I believe he lacks the character to be president. Anything is possible, of course, but barring some unforeseen event, Trump will win the GOP presidential nomination.
I got to thinking about Trump’s critics — and how clueless they can be, despite their supposed sophistication — after reading a column by Bret Stephens in the New York Times. Stephens says he plans to spend the year “strenuously opposing [Trump’s] candidacy” and writes that, “You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand........