I don’t “hate” President Trump

Robert E. Van Cleef
3 min readApr 4, 2020

It seems common in President Trump’s community to assume that anyone who doesn’t support him must “hate” him.

I, for one, have never “hated” Donald Trump, but today I “fear” him. I fear him and his team because their actions are accelerating our nation down a path we have been on for decades. They are moving us closer and closer to trading what is left of our democracy to an autocratic government.

I also “fear” Attorney General Barr, who is carefully dismantling many of the laws that protect us from such an autocratic government and that guarantee the…

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Robert E. Van Cleef

I am an SOB: Son of a Bos’n — Sailor, Preacher, Advocate, Computer Geek.