The ‘nice’ Trump supporter

If you are a Trump supporter, don’t act like a fake nice person around me. Just be an a$$, so we both can vent and move on.

Updated Oct. 12, 2020

I’ve had numerous debates with conservatives in my day. One of my favorites was during a 2004 drive through Tennessee on my way to Texas from Washington, D.C. At one point, I had listened to every tape of Springsteen, Seger, Petty, and others that I had. I had discussed the finer points of maneuvering a car through an early-morning traffic jam with my four-year-old son who kept me awake from the back seat.

So dreadfully, I tuned in to the radio and could only find trite country songs or right-wing talk shows, even on FM. I stumbled upon an announcer saying that Watergate crook G. Gordon Liddy was up next. I had never listened to his show before, and I had nothing better to do while driving 1,300 miles, so what the hell, I thought.

The first thing I noticed about Liddy was that his voice sounded kind of wimpy. It wasn’t the gruff, hard-edged voice I expected from someone who used to stick his hands in candles, burglarize offices, and slip LSD into Democrats’ food for fun.

Then he called John Kerry an “anti-war activist,” with the implication being that he committed treason, and I knew that was the same man who went to Club Fed for four years for burglary, talking about bombing liberal think tanks, plotting to kill Jack Anderson, and other crimes. Between jabbing Kerry for supposedly trying to live off his wealthy wife — Kerry worked all his life and was well off enough before meeting Teresa — and ignoring Bush, who was a drunk until age 40 and had lived much of his entire life off his wealthy father, Liddy asked callers to state their opinions about what should be done to make sure Super Bowl viewers who are used to seeing scantily-clad cheerleaders don’t see any more of Janet Jackson’s breasts.

After several callers criticized Kerry for supposedly committing war crimes and worse — it’s amazing that Republican hypocrites can criticize someone who could have dodged the draft but didn’t and became a Vietnam War hero, and not say anything about someone who used his family connections to dodge the draft to get into the National Guard and went AWOL — I got on my cell phone.

It took me two tries, but I actually got on the air. I was kind of shocked — I expected only to give my two cents to some volunteer administrative type. But when I got on the air, I…