What we all need to do now, those of us who voted for Donald Trump, those of us who voted for Hillary Clinton, and those who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for either one of them, is to give the other side a break and the benefit of the doubt. While it is hard, what we have to do now is to put everything that was said before the election aside, and judge people on what they say and do now. Everybody has to do it. Democrats have to do it vis-à-vis Donald Trump. Republicans have to do it vis-à-vis Democrats. Everybody.
Those of you who are really old may remember Herbert Lawrence Block, a/k/a “Herblock,” an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post from the 1940s to the 2000s. To say he disliked Richard Nixon would be an understatement. He always drew Richard Nixon with a heavy five o’clock shadow (back when that was not in style) and worse. But when Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968, Herblock drew this one:
He was quoted as explaining, “Listen, you’re about to come into office, you’ve earned the right to be president of the United States. You're going to get one free shave, and we'll go from there.”
That’s the only way it’s going to work.
Comments