Right and Left, Freedom and Tyranny

Viewing politics in terms of left wing and right wing is useless. By the time you get to Hitler on the right and Stalin on the left, it doesn't matter whether corporations or government controls the economy. It matters that a tyrant rules by fiat and fear and with disregard for the law. The legal backbone of this country was designed by people who believed in free speech, free press, free expression and free religion: that is, freedom. They aimed to design a government that would protect these things - freedom - by preventing tyranny via a government of checks and balances. I'm not saying the founders did a great job of this. But their intentions and values were clear enough. They favored freedom over tyranny, not right over left. Trump is not right nor left. He is an aspiring tyrant - however incompetent he may be - and he is thus unAmerican. I don't expect his supporters to ever admit this, but where he - and his supporters - stand in relation to fundamental American values does not depend on how they feel. They are opposed to them.