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Taking Action Against the Dangers of Trump Lies with Your Representatives and Acquaintances

Orrin Konheim
2 min readJun 3, 2024

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The idea that Trump’s ideas were anything but dangerous was debunked as far back as 2016 and there’s been no further evidence that he isn’t the most unfit person in our country’s history to take a public office in the intervening years. We must get angry and take action. Call your senators and representatives and have hard and uncomfortable conversations with anyone you know who is still going to vote Republican (show tact and everything else; I’ve done it in the swing state of Georgia knocking on doors).

I know most of us know that there is nothing remotely tenable about the current position of a great number of Republicans that Biden somehow presents (who has deported more people than Trump and actually employed compassion as part of his policy, passed proposals for infrastructure and student debt, has not abused his office) a danger, let alone presents the kind of danger to a guy who has run into 91 indictments, 2 impeachments, civil counts of fraud, had his charity dissolved, been held legally liable for rape, embezzled from his own campaign funds, etc, etc, etc

One man never changes history by himself. Trump is a mentally ill narcissist; almost like a baby who doesn’t know any better. The people in power, the members of congress who are showing that there’s no Orwellian version of reality they will try to impose upon their base to hold onto power. In their world, any person or institution that poses a threat — every judge…

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Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim

Written by Orrin Konheim

Freelance journalist w/professional bylines in 3 dozen publications, writing coach, google me. Patreon: http://www.patreon/com/okjournalist Twitter: okonh0wp

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