John J. Waters and Adam Ellwanger
When the White House caused “Immortal chaplains”, to illustrate the history between the United States and Greenland, raised the topic appearing in the second administration of Trump: the meaning of courage.
On February 3, 1943, American Steamship SS Dorchester He began 902 souls – soldiers, sailors of merchants and civilians – obliged to the base of the American army in southern Greenland to support the construction of military staff during World War II. The captain of the ship ordered people sleeping in his uniforms and life vests in the event of an attack of German submarines, but many disregarded the order due to heat from the ship’s engine.
Just after midnight, the U-Łódka torpedo hit DorchesterOld side under the water line. Four Navy chaplains – Rabbi, Minister of Methodist, Catholic Priest and Protestant Reverend – abandoned their own rescue vests and panicked crew members to lifeboat. . Dorchester He sank in 20 minutes. One of the 230 survivors later reminded what he saw when he sailed from the ship: “The bow appeared high and slipped under the last thing I saw, four chaplains prayed for the safety of men. They did everything they could.”
Courage means feeling fear, but behavior in a noble and good way, like chaplains, when they acted on the deepest beliefs on board Dorchester. Donald Trump once wrote This courage is not a lack of fear, but “the ability to act effectively, despite fear.”
In 2016, Trump showed moral courage when he told the truth to American voters: the parasitic “establishing” political and corporate interests used our employees, farmers and soldiers. When Trump questioned 16 opponents in the basic Republican, he revealed untruths in conservative Orthodox given to Ronald Reagan by George W. Bush. The enemies of the establishment persecuted him with the investigations and the proceedings of the impeachment for four years of his presidency, but Trump refused to violate his principles or check his ambition to “make America great.”
The inauguration of Joe Biden in 2021, the establishment was inclined to operate the fourteenth amendment to prevent Trump from launching the president for the third time. They equalized him against him in two federal regional courts, tried him in the state of state in New York and accused him in Georgia for the alleged violations of the Rico Act. Although Trump was rejected, his campaign manager Susie Wiles was concerned: “I’m only worried that if they can’t get him, they’ll try to kill him.” And this almost happened on July 13 at the trade fair areas in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the killer’s bullet grazing Trump’s ear.
Where Trump modeled courage, the establishment only shows the cowardice-a decade of the effort of the destruction of Trump was chased from the shadows, hiding behind the anonymity of bureaucratic power provided. They falsely claimed that Trump “said” Vladimir Putin and Russia. They used a coat plan and a dagger so that in 2018 the Brett Kavanaugh nomination in the Supreme Court Dobbs Assessment of the decision ROE against Wade; Despite the promise of the chief judge Roberts, the leak remains unidentified and unpredictable.
Some say that Trump’s opponents are an example of courage in bold attacks on his character and reputation. But the conversation does not make them brave, at least because it costs them nothing. Their admonitions are purely performative means so that curry favorably media and general establishments, which turn to Trump’s reforms. There is nothing brave in the scream “F-CK Trump” in the microphone. Regardless of the strength in the political sphere, it depends on showing that saying accompanying act. Trump has been talking strenuous for years and supports him with some action. The moment he got up in the bouther, with a bloody face and shouting “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, He gave the final evidence that he is more than a strenuous speaker.
The presidency of Joe Biden is a prosperous example of cowardice: Outdoor people worked for years to hide that the sitting president was unable to perform the duties of the office. In the book Fight: In the wildest battle for the White HouseLong -time political reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes withdraw the curtain of the Presidency of Biden, describing in detail how his staff managed the falling president and hid his impairment of the American nation. Biden “lived in a bubble in bunkers”, authors to write. Although “the signs of falling were clear to anyone who would be willing to see them”, the inner near Biden believed that “no one would leave the house, plane, helicopter”, so they went. When the fraud was disclosed during the presidential debate in June last year, the power players in Washington again withdrew to the secret of the background and excluded the program to convey delegates whom Biden secured to appoint a candidate their Selection instead of People choice.
For decades, the presidents talked about the transfer of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but no one did. Over the years, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosia and Bernie Sanders called for tariffs to restructure world trade. But when Donald Trump did what he said and imposed the tariffs? It was all that the same people would discover their opposition to tariffs. Biden cowardice and leading lights in the Democratic Party contrast sharply with the recent administration. Trump and many others played their reputation, fortunes and future interests with a brave but polarizing program. Every day they face the American people, openly and fearless. For Trump, the most critical feature of helpers and office members is not loyalty, but courage – and readiness to pay the price for things that matter.
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John J. Waters He is a lawyer. In the years 2020–21 he served as a deputy assistant to the Secretary of Internal Security. Follow him on @johnjwaters1 on X. Adam Ellwanger He is a professor at the University of Houston – a center where he teaches rhetoric and writing. Follow it at 1hetyicalruth on X.
