Don’t Tread on Me in the Era of Trump 👑

Many people might think I’m a Trump supporter with my Don’t Tread on Me flag. but if anything, with the era of the imperial presidency, I think Don’t Tread On Me these days has a very different meaning – opposition to power more generally, and the abuse of power more specifically.

It’s not to say I’m not sympathetic to many things Donald Trump advocates, particularly his belief in second amendment rights. Indeed, I even voted for him last November, though I would say it was hardly a ringing endorsement as much as protest vote against the state saying my only choices should be Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump by throwing the third parties off the ballot. Plus I wanted a disrupter, an outsider, somebody not so wedded to conventional wisdom.

Still this is hardly an endorsement of a king, or the selective prosecutions or abusive acts of Donald Trump in the White House. Nor is an endorsement of the migrant and immigrant round-up or harassment of those of non-white complexion. Things needed to change, new ideas introduced and decades of grime leaned, but so much of Trump 2.0 has been about grift and vindictive acts. I’m not impressed.