Melania Trump: “We are a country of hope, not a country of fear or weakness.”
This woman is married to a guy who is head of a political party that is literally afraid of EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING.
And these people? Most especially they're afraid of appearing weak. Donald Trump is absolutely and utterly terrified of showing what he considers "weakness" in any fashion whatsoever. He goes to incredibly stupid lengths to deny any weakness of any kind.
THAT'S HIS PRIMARY WEAKNESS.
He is the Truck Nutz of Presidents.
The entire operating philosophy of the modern Republican party is fear. Fear is what drives them. Fear of immigrants, fear of change, fear of gay people getting married, fear of trans people using a bathroom, fear that a couple of lesbians might want to adopt a child, fear that children might get enough to eat, fear that woman might control their own bodies and lives, fear that students might learn something contrary to their religion, fear that their miserable capricious spiteful god will smite them for some random misdeed committed by others, fear of elitism, fear of people who worship different gods or none at all, fear that somebody somewhere undeserving might get the same civil rights they enjoy, fear that a black man might not knuckle under to authority with the proper deference and cringing respect, fear that sick people might get healthcare without having to pay, fear that rich people won't get richer and businesses won't make obscene profits, fear of wind turbines and solar panels, fear that we might actually make the world a better place for our children. They're afraid of socialism even though they couldn't possibly tell you what that even is. They're afraid of fascism, even though they are right now voting for it. They're afraid of communism, even though they openly refer to themselves unironically as the RED WAVE. They gulp steroids and Viagra by the handful and roll that coal in their giant trucks, dressed in surplus camo, clutching their guns, because they're utterly terrified some random stranger they don't know on the highway or the internet will think them unmanly and a sissy boy.
These people are afraid of EVERYTHING.
It's what defines them.
FEAR is who they are. Every day. In every moment.
And HOPE? Hope?
You've GOT to be fucking kidding me.
Hope. Don't make me laugh. All you have to do is look at their terrified outrage when Obama said THAT word to America.