Trump is leaving a huge mess only liberals can clean up

As a lifelong journalist who has spent 35 years in this bizarre industry, let me tell you how we roll, or at least how we did back in the old days. We challenge those in power. We get right up in their face and deep under their skin. So it’s not surprising that when Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in the White House, I leaned to the right, and when Donald Trump is in the White House, as he was four years ago and is again now, I lean more to the left. To tell you the truth, I really don’t want to lean at all. I don’t want to lean in either direction. I like being in the center, and I’d like to stay there no matter who is in the White House at any given time, if you want to take the easy road and flow through life using only half your brain, you’ll be perfectly comfortable at the extremes. There’s plenty of anger and resentment over there, but very little critical thinking going on. People at the extremes don’t want to hear different points of view. They’re content to have their views echoed. Meanwhile, being in the center is not for the faint of heart. It can be tough to get there and even harder to stay there. It means you get hit often and with equal force by both sides. It means being despised and distrusted by both parties and realizing that neither party has all the answers. It means finding it easy to hate both political parties and tough to tell them apart. It means being liberal on some issues but conservative on others, and voting for Democrats and Republicans often on the same ballot. Most of all, being in the center means that you have to be ready to fight at all times with the right or the left. I’ve also spent more than my share of time in the principal’s office for just doing my job. True story recently, I was gently scolded by a television producer for being too far left, when just 18 months earlier, I was scolded by the very same producer for being too far right. That’s how confused the media is right now and how afraid many of my colleagues are of their own shadow. Still, I told the producer I was thankful for the call it gave me the chance to recalibrate. I want to stay a never Trumper, but also remain as the title of my podcast suggests. Ruben in the center, I can tell already Trump is not going to make that easy. After just a few weeks in office, Trump has done some things right, but they’re drowned out by the many things he’s done wrong so far. The Trump errors include issuing a mass pardon of more than 1500 January 6 rioters, including those who beat and threatened to kill police officers firing and investigating January 6, prosecutors attacking birthright citizenship, launching an immigration crackdown that omits punishing employers, blaming dei Diversity Equity and Inclusion Without evidence for a mid air collision over Washington, alienating our good friends and neighbors, Canada and Mexico by threatening to impose a 25% tariff on imports, sending undocumented immigrants to Guantanamo Bay to be imprisoned alongside terrorists, allowing, in some cases, even requiring local and state police to enforce federal immigration law, suggesting that the US should and could control Gaza, relocate the Palestinians and turn the region into the Riviera of the Middle East. And finally, and this is a biggie, threatening our very constitutional system of checks and balances by attacking the federal judiciary after judges struck down several Trump initiatives as unlawful and unconstitutional, Trump has generated all that sewage, and he has even been in office a month. Say maybe the senator can wait. There’s a lot of cleanup to do, a lot of punches to be thrown from the left and.