There are many things in the world that require a nuanced approach, and none more so than the subject of politics. However, nuance is something the current American political climate sorely lacks.
The ongoing trial of Donald J. Trump and the allies bound up with him in their ever-mounting tidal wave of legal woes is not something to be decided on in the court of public opinion hastily or with misinformation.
Yet that is exactly what is happening and has been happening for years, ever since the source of this trial unfolded back in 2020, on January 6th.
Republicans deny any accountability or manner of fact checking on one side and Democrats throw caution and the desire of due process to the wind on the other.
Former Mayor of New York City and a lawyer for Trump, Rudy Giulliani, and former Whitehouse Chief-of-Staff, Mark Meadows, have been implicated in the insurrection by the January 6th committee and now by the Georgia election fraud case. These are some of Trump’s most ardent defenders and are much maligned by his enemies.
How many voices are asking for fairness, however? Political pundits on the left such as Rachel Maddow would sooner burn these folks at the stake than listen to what they have to say for themselves. Pundits on the right like Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld act as though there is nothing to prosecute, that everyone should just say, “Go home. We love you,” as if embodying the famous Trumpian sentiment through their own actions.
I propose we, as Americans, strive for nuance through methodical diligence in finding the truth and letting the rule of law stand. The vitriol coming from both the burro and the elephant only bogs the nation down in classist debates and elitist bickering that comes from no place of compromise and love for fellow human beings. Compromise is what must happen in a democratic republic like the United States, and that compromise takes a learned outlook and patient adherence to truth. Nuance.