Where can one go to hear the moral sanity that counters the grudgeful actions of the American president? Where can we hear the voice of compassion and empathy as immigration agents ignore the most basic rights of Americans and demonstrate the heavy hand of authoritarian government in action? Who would have guessed it would come from a former Chicago priest now influencing others in the Catholic hierarchy?

President Donald Trump’s MAGA rallies have served as training sessions for at least a third of Americans, who polls show support his administration’s actions regardless of how ruthless and deadly they have been recently in Minneapolis. Republicans now scoff at President Ronald Reagan’s reference to America as “a shining city upon a hill.”

Today, Trump teaches how to put self ahead of that shining city upon a hill. He degrades the language we use to modulate our disagreements and seek common ground. He stretches the truth into fabrications, and he punishes those with whom he disagrees.

His latest lesson was giving the finger to a worker at a Michigan auto plant who yelled at him for his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, thereby giving license to his minions to do the same in any conflict or disagreement.

Americans hoping for a better day yearn for a leader who may differ........

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