When we strongly believe in a person or cause, it’s so hard to admit that we were wrong. My parents, good Ohio Republicans, were devastated by Nixon’s betrayal to our country and the Presidency. That was then.
Now we hear from another voice: “I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It.” Author and conservative JULIUS KREIN does his mea culpa in the article above. It’s sad to see that his initial expectations have essentially evaporated. It leaves a vacuum of anxiety – what’s coming next?
IT takes morality and great courage to speak up and say, ” I made a mistake. I am so sorry. ” We have all made mistakes. I voted for Nixon and it was very hard to see him as a president after Watergate inspite of his opening up China, etc. Here and there I voted for a few others who ‘showed their stripes’ when they were in office and I learned they would no further get my vote.
Few people always get it right. Also, some people are amazing on a campaign road but don’t seem to be fine presidents for one reason or the other. But one thing is clear to me. What it takes to win and what it takes to BE a president can be different. Presidents have to be in control of their impulses. Presidents need to work with many different opinions and advice. Presidents need to be evolved adults and interested in what got them there in their lives and what got our country here, too. And they need to learn their lessons and, yes, on occasion, admit when they have learned something that has changed a position they had previously. Presidents do not blame but sit with the reality that in most every case, they are ‘where the buck falls’ vs candidates that can point fingers. And on it goes.