Dorina Amendola ’02

3 Weeks Ago

Fear of Conservative Ideas Threatens Democracy

This incendiary headline referring to President Trump should be in quotation marks no less than “Ancient Apocalypse” on the other page. According to a majority of American voters, larger and more diverse than any in human history, and with growing international support, this position is ridiculous, even dangerous, let alone controversial. PAW should know better.

The diversity of Trump voters should be enough to end all ideological assumptions in the classroom, as more immigrant and first-generation Americans, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, women, survivors of Communism, and every other conceivable grouping were amply represented among them, in larger percentages than ever before. Truthfully, the continued myth of conservatives, unarmed, unorganized, many elderly and handicapped, fomenting insurrection, as more facts come to light, only makes the position this headline threatens, even more laughable.

Conservative ideas help make people prosperous and free. That’s the opinion of Trump voters, and it is worth study, not evisceration. Fear of such ideas is the real threat to democracy.

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