Letter: If you voted for Trump, you own it

Richard Herbig
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I have something to say to many of the conservative, Republican evangelicals in West Michigan, especially those who voted for Donald Trump in 2020. You now have and have had since Jan. 6, 2021, ownership of each of the following items. (Ownership means you possess them, they belong to you, and you carry responsibility for each and every one of them.)

  1. You own the most dangerous and foolish lie in American history, that Donald Trump won the 2020 election but was denied the win because of voter fraud.

  2. You own the most significant act of treason since the Civil War, the January attack on the Capitol.

  3. You own the injuries and death that accompanied that treasonous insurrection as well as the damage and destruction to the nation’s Capitol.

  4. You own an attempt to destroy the world’s greatest deliberative body, the United States Congress.

  5. You own the words of senators, representatives and media personalities who continue to lie about the 2020 presidential election and through those lies gain political power, political advantage or financial gain.

  6. You own attempts by state legislatures to restrict access by minorities to the ballot box under the guise of stopping voter fraud — fraud that is for all practical purposes non-existent. These attempts have been openly spoken about as ways to insure victory for Republican candidates for office.

  7. You own the actions of those who claim to be evangelical Christians, but forsake truth and surrender to the infantile behavior, demands and personality of Donald Trump instead of following the examples set forth by Jesus Christ and those who were and are his true disciples. You also own Don Jr.’s repudiation of being a follower of Jesus because, as he said before a large group of conservatives, “it has got us nothing.” You seriously damage Christianity in the eyes of many and likely the world.

You most likely will respond by saying you don’t own each and all of those six actions or events but by remaining silent, by continuing to give your vote and support to the Trump party and its propaganda, you do have ownership and you are complicit in Trump’s and his party’s attacks on American Democracy and our constitutional system.

There is no longer a Republican Party. It died shortly after Jan. 6, 2021. It is now the Trump Party and you own it.

This article originally appeared on The Holland Sentinel: Letter: If you voted for Trump, you own it