My family, I believe, is much like many of yours, in a lot of respects. Children or not, brothers and sisters or not. From what I hear and have seen in my own life, most of us have the same thing happening in our families or friendships.
When Trump came down the escalator in New York City in 2016, the divide started. It’s still hard for me to believe that one man can cause our country to split apart.
A guy who said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and never lose a vote. Someone who said he could grab girls by their privates, and it was his right. He said he would build a wall, and Mexico would pay for it. See I had been watching this guy by then, for 30, yes 30, years. I was in the same field as him and many of his realtors were friends of mine. I heard and saw what he did to people he did business with for 30 years.
My family has split apart. As an example I have two stepdaughters that I raised, and my son. We have not had much to agree on for almost 10 years. As many of my signs have said, if Trump ran as a Democrat, I would still be calling him a filthy pig, and ALL THE REPUBLICANS would, too. You know, and I know, you all know, he is a morally bankrupt human being. Why even Epstein said that. It’s never been party against party for me. It’s always been the lack of morals of Trump.
Some Trump voters this year seeing the inhuman treatment of Hispanics and white protestors, are moving to my side of the street. Most of my neighbors don’t like me because of my moral stand against him. PLEASE get this, I don’t care who does not like me protesting, against the most immoral man of my lifetime and I never will.
Ed McGinty is a resident of the Village of Hadley.