Throughout the 2024 Election cycle we heard a lot from the left about the need for unity and a peaceful transition of power, presumably because of the concerns about the opposite happening and the potential impact to democracy should the right win in the elections. Well, the right won in the elections…a lot of them, including the presidency. But, long before that happened, there were 2 assassination attempts on candidate Donald Trump. Immediately after the election there were protests outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago with chants of “Donald Trump, you fascist clown.” Then, just last week we had our own post-election meltdown right in front of our home in Hilton. My husband was sitting on our front porch enjoying a beautiful fall afternoon. A Trump 2024 flag was still proudly displayed on the mailbox in our front yard. A car pulled up to our Trump flag, and upon seeing my husband on the porch screamed out, “go kill yourself!”. Well, so much for unity and a peaceful transition. Maybe it was the same person who stole our Trump 2020 flag from that same mailbox. Or maybe it was the person who repeatedly drove by our house in 2020 with a megaphone screaming, “if you vote for Trump you are a racist!”. Most likely, it was just another left-leaning person who thinks unity and a peaceful transition only apply to people in the other party, not theirs. All of that behavior is the opposite of unity and a peaceful transition, it’s simply evil.
