{"id":43777,"date":"2020-07-28T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43777"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:00:35","slug":"what-will-happen-when-that-time-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43777","title":{"rendered":"What will happen when that time comes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have a number of clever, astute and erudite Facebook friends who are unafraid to comment on political matters.<\/p>\n

Les is one of them. He writes today:<\/p>\n

President Trump declared today that he was not going to pay respects to John Lewis, lying in state at the Capitol, and then left for a tour of a North Carolina factory and another COVID briefing. I hope he understands that he has set a no-show precedent for when he is on display in the Rotunda and no one visits.<\/em><\/p>\n

There you go. Donald Trump will not physically honor the life and contributions of one of the final great civil rights titans to pass from the scene.<\/p>\n

The late John Lewis is lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda, the first African-American lawmaker ever to receive the honor.<\/p>\n

Trump won’t stand before Lewis’s flag-draped casket. He won’t pretend to say a prayer in Lewis’s memory. He won’t pose for pictures that no doubt would be snapped by photographers gathered to watch the symbolic act.<\/p>\n

I know that Trump and Lewis were enemies. Indeed, Trump sees every political foe as an enemy. They aren’t just opponents in this clown’s view. When someone makes a critical remark on the way Trump is doing his job as the nation’s top elected public official, he takes it personally.<\/em> Lewis certainly offered his share of critical remarks. Therefore, Trump won’t do what is right.<\/p>\n

What’s more — and this cannot be ignored in this political season — Trump is sticking a proverbial political dagger in his own heart by enraging black voters who expect the president to pay his respects to a man of such heroic stature. Then again, Trump the Politician likely figures, to borrow a phrase: What do I have to lose?<\/em><\/p>\n

My friend, though, makes note of what might lie ahead when Donald Trump no longer is with us. He would be a former president of the United States. He would be entitled to lie in state as many former presidents have been honored since the founding of the republic.<\/p>\n

Surely, a former president such as Trump would be able to attract someone — anyone<\/em> — who would pay their respects to him once he has departed this good Earth?<\/p>\n\n

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