Opinion Post By Joline Gutierrez Krueger Glenn: “How Are We OK With Any Of This?”; Dinelli Support Commentary

Joline Gutierrez Krueger Glenn is an award-winning journalist, having worked at both the Albuquerque Tribune and Albuquerque Journal for nearly 40 years. Most recently, she was the Journal’s front page columnist from 2008 until her retirement in 2022. She was raised in Albuquerque, lived on both coasts and a few mountain ranges, attended three universities and a number of fellowships and internships, finally returning home to complete her creative writing degree at the University of New Mexico. She is happily retired and resides in the East Mountains.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Joline Gutierrez Krueger Glenn has given her permission to publish on www.PeteDinelli.com the following FACEBOOK post. She has not been paid compensation to allow publication.  

On January 23, Joline Gutierrez Krueger Glenn posted on her FACEBOOK page the following:

“As the days — no, the hours — go by, it’s getting harder to give grace to those people who voted for that guy.

How are they OK with any of this?

How are they OK with Trump setting free 1,500 convicted January 6 criminals, many who violently attacked 140 police officers and broke into the Capital in an attempt to overthrow the government?

How are they OK with attacking an Episcopal bishop asking for mercy for the people who are now in the bullseye of his hate?

How are they OK with Patel, Hegseth, Kennedy, Gabbard? Musk! Fricking Ross Ulbricht!

How?

Mostly because they don’t know what’s going on. Fox News isn’t telling them. They’re not interested in knowing. They don’t believe what little news trickles down to them.

So much news and it’s falling on deaf ears. Or it’s dismissed by the stubborn and sycophantic matter between those ears.

Have you seen those interviews with Trump supporters? Their blind fealty is breathtaking. Scary.

Look, I loved President Obama. I appreciated President Biden. I would have loved President Harris. But I never deified them. I never accepted everything they said as sacrosanct and sacred.

But Trump supporters? He’s their god. They’d follow him off a cliff.

Trouble is, they’re taking the country over the edge with them.

So what do we do?

For one, we have to end our vacation from the news. I have. No more Hallmark Christmas romance movies for me! We have to know what’s going on.

More than that, we have to share what we know, backed by truth and fact and videos.

The Bulwark’s Jonathan Last suggests that to stop Trump’s war we have to stop his popularity. His Republican cowards in Congress stick with him when he’s riding high in the public eye. Trump’s popularity stands at about 47% — better than almost any time during his first term. That won’t last once reality sets in.

So how do we wake up his loyalists to reality?

“Go out and tell them about the bad shit Trump is doing, right now,” Last suggests.

But look, I get that it feels like screaming into the void. And it’s hard to immerse oneself again in Trump Land without feeling like your head is going to explode.

So just do what you can, what you are comfortable with. Abstain from personal attacks — which, like I mentioned, is getting harder for me to do, so I know what a challenge that is.

And, yes, listen to what they have to say as well.

Know you are not the one who is crazy. Know you are not alone.

I promise to keep telling them (and you) about the bad shit Trump is doing, too. Lord knows there’s plenty of shit to choose from.

And it’s only Day Three.”

DINELLI COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS

A tremendous THANK YOU goes to Joline Gutierrez Krueger Glenn for voicing what many are thinking and believing. It’s a sober reminder that elections have consequences.

It was the economy and inflation that swept Trump to a decisive victory. Exit polls showed that the voting public were extremely disgruntled if not downright hostile with the direction the country is going, with inflation out of control. Voters were far more  concerned about making a living, angered over grocery and gas prices, as opposed to any threat Trump posed to our democracy. Voters simply believed they were better off when Trump was President the first time believing all his lies. Voters chose to forget the 4 years of total chaos Trump brought upon the county and his failure to deal with the pandemic that killed millions worldwide and in the United States and that had a strangle hold on the country and that destroyed the economy.

In the end, voters simply ignored Trump’s flawed character, the multimillion dollar civil judgements against him for sexual assault and slander, his criminal conduct in the private sector and while in office, his fraud in securing millions in loans in New York, the  multiple state criminal convictions and pending federal criminal charges, his two impeachments, his misogyny, his racism, his threat to democracy, his attempt to overthrow the government with all his lies that the election was rigged and stolen from him, his attacks on woman’s rights and civil rights, his support of racists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, his promotion of racist policies and his cult following of Christian fundamentalist who totally ignored his immorality, multiple marriages and affairs and praised him as the second coming.

Trump is now our President after a peaceful transfer of power, unlike 4 years ago when Trump promoted an insurrection and his big lie that the election was stolen from him. The country now has the President it has elected. Voters will get a clown car of a cabinet filled with people who have no business being appointed, who are totally unqualified and who are 100% loyal to Trump and not to the country and whose goal is to destroy the very agencies they head. The reality is that with his executive appointments he is following the conservative Project 2025 agenda to the tee. (See related article below on Project 2025.)  With Trumps announced appointments, it his clear he intends to gut the Department of Justice, the military leadership, our health care system and dismantle government to carry out his personal vendettas.

Trump and his Republican Party are overreaching declaring they have a mandate to do whatever they damn well want with no guard rails. Trumps selections for cabinet positions also indicate there will be no checks and balances from congress with Republicans in control of all three branches of government. There will be no intervention from the Trump appointed Supreme Court of right-wing conservative disciples in  black robes who will do his bidding and who have given him immunity from prosecution making him above the law.

As the saying goes, elections have consequences.  Trumps agenda will go way beyond what people thought they were voting for. Voters will not be any better off financially than they are now in one year under a Trump second presidency let alone the 4 years to come. His imposition of tariffs and the effects of mass deportation on the agricultural work force will have a dramatic and negative impact on the economy as will corporate greed and skyrocketing consumer prices. MAGA supporters will enjoy watching as he burns the country to the ground, up and until they are personally affected such as when social security and Medicare are slashed which is guaranteed

Throughout his successful campaign, Trump campaigned on the idea that he would “rescue our middle class” and fight for the average American. Now that he has assumed office, he has appointed and empowered oligarchs, billionaires and millionaires to dismantle government and be damned the average American. Now that he has been sworn in, it’s clear from actions he intends to sow chaos, controversy and divide the American people and alienate our allies world wide as he sucks up to dictators such as Putin.

Links to related Dinelli articles are here:

Trump’s “Clown Car” Appointments Will Seek Trump’s Revenge On Department of Justice, Fire Military Hierarchy, Endanger Public Health And Compromise Nations Intelligence And Security; Trump Relies On Oligarchs To Systematically Dismantle Government; Trump Wants Recess Appointments To Avoid Senate Confirmation Hearings

 

Trump’s Second Administration Packed With Project 2025 Architects And Authors; Their Ultimate Goal Is To Systematically Dismantle Federal Government And Give Trump Unfettered And Total  Control Of Government

 

Project 2025 Is Der Führer Trump’s Conservative Blue Print For A Second Term Reflecting An American Fascist Agenda To Give Trump Unfettered Presidential Power

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Pete Dinelli was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is of Italian and Hispanic descent. He is a 1970 graduate of Del Norte High School, a 1974 graduate of Eastern New Mexico University with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a 1977 graduate of St. Mary's School of Law, San Antonio, Texas. Pete has a 40 year history of community involvement and service as an elected and appointed official and as a practicing attorney in Albuquerque. Pete and his wife Betty Case Dinelli have been married since 1984 and they have two adult sons, Mark, who is an attorney and George, who is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Pete has been a licensed New Mexico attorney since 1978. Pete has over 27 years of municipal and state government service. Pete’s service to Albuquerque has been extensive. He has been an elected Albuquerque City Councilor, serving as Vice President. He has served as a Worker’s Compensation Judge with Statewide jurisdiction. Pete has been a prosecutor for 15 years and has served as a Bernalillo County Chief Deputy District Attorney, as an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant District Attorney and as a Deputy City Attorney. For eight years, Pete was employed with the City of Albuquerque both as a Deputy City Attorney and Chief Public Safety Officer overseeing the city departments of police, fire, 911 emergency call center and the emergency operations center. While with the City of Albuquerque Legal Department, Pete served as Director of the Safe City Strike Force and Interim Director of the 911 Emergency Operations Center. Pete’s community involvement includes being a past President of the Albuquerque Kiwanis Club, past President of the Our Lady of Fatima School Board, and Board of Directors of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation.