We are living in peculiar times. Darth Vader Dick Cheney endorses Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris after being the lightning rod of hate for her party for decades. Legacy Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorses former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump after suspending his campaign. It appears this seismic shift is also happening in the legacy media. Media talking heads like former CNN and current News Nation correspondent Chris Cuomo, who were vociferous about how dangerous, stupid, and corrupt Donald Trump is, are now seeing him through new eyes after not one but two attempted assassinations.
I did not have that on my 2024 Bingo card.
On Monday, Cuomo did an 18-minute monologue about this change of perspective on the matters of this election and on Donald Trump. Cuomo talked about it being his mother’s birthday and him asking her what she wants to see in the world. Mama Cuomo insisted that she wished people would come together. That family and community are the linchpins of our society. From there, Cuomo launched into what turned out to be an amazingly thoughtful treatise on what America could be, and what it will take to get there.
I don’t know if enough of us believe that anymore. The unique truth about America is that she only works if we tap into our interconnectedness and “interdependentness.” Those are big words indicating a simple idea: Here, we have to care about one another. It is our only bond. We don’t have homogeneity, we don’t have common heritage or even really culture. What we have and what has made our greatness so durable is our ability to combine to magnified effect. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
And the great news is, we have so much more potential in America than I see anywhere else.
Who red-pilled Chris Cuomo? Who knew Fredo could actually reason?
We are so desperate to drag ourselves away from greatness, from progress, from each other. That is what I see that really bothers me, and the reaction and lack of reaction to the second attempt on Trump in the last couple of months. Oh, but the guy didn’t even shoot. What if it was your father? Or what if it was Kamala Harris? Or President Biden—God forbid. Do you think it would be almost a shoulder shrug and more talk about the Secret Service and allocation of funds than just how crazy it is that this is what’s happening in our country? That reaction of, well, come on, don’t make too much of it. He had an AK-47 pointed at him! The reaction is unacceptable, and it’s the second time media and political players have gotten away with playing down what should be a cause for panic.
Cuomo took a cheap shot at Elon Musk criticizing a recent X post, which has since been deleted, pointing out exactly what he said above (What if it had been Kamala Harris?), but then he returned back to being insightful.
We need our leaders to step up and start being rewarded for stepping up and doing the right thing. Both of those things matter.
Let’s hope his older brother Andrew is listening to this. Cuomo once again dives into blaming the right for the divisiveness of the discourse, but then shifts gears and makes an amazing admission.
It is just as troubling to me to hear about fake stories of eating cats and dogs as it is to hear fake concern by our sitting president and almost nothing from the Democrat who wants to lead us about what happened with Trump. “We don’t condone violence.” Who says that? What does it even mean? You don’t dismiss trivial pursuits of violence? Okay, who would? We need a lot more than that right now. We need reason to believe in who we are at our best, and we are starved of that.
Cuomo points out the round-robin of blame going around and the inflated rhetoric on both sides. But no one is taking action to do better, to be better. So Cuomo decided to be the change that he wished to see in the world. He actually called Trump up.
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I don’t agree with everything Cuomo said. He is still off the mark on many things (Yes, Kamala Harris is a communist). But the sheer fact that this man who has spent countless hours and years on cable television bashing Donald Trump is now able to put himself in another man’s shoes and reach out. “I’m not supporting Trump, I’m supporting us,” is a profound statement and in a way, kind of mind-blowing.
The entire 18-minute monologue is worth listening to, but just the above portion is amazing food for thought in these divided and vociferous times. If Chris Cuomo can take a step toward unity, who knows what else is possible in the next 49 days?
