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"She
is 'unfit for the presidency"
| Last
week several newspapers that historically endorse the GOP presidential
candidate came out for Hillary Clinton. USA Today, which have never
endorsed any candidate, blared "Trump
is 'unfit for the presidency" Here are the paper's bullet
points. |
He is erratic. Trump has been on so many sides of so many issues that
attempting to assess his policy positions is like shooting at a moving
target.
He is ill-equipped to be commander in chief. Trump’s foreign policy
pronouncements typically range from uninformed to incoherent.
He traffics in prejudice. From the very beginning, Trump has built his
campaign on appeals to bigotry and xenophobia, whipping up resentment
against Mexicans, Muslims and migrants. His proposals for mass
deportations and religious tests are unworkable and contrary to
America’s ideals.
Trump has stirred racist sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by his
belated and clumsy outreach to African Americans. His attacks on an
Indiana-born federal judge of Mexican heritage fit “the textbook
definition of a racist comment,” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan,
the highest-ranking elected official in the Republican Party. And for
five years, Trump fanned the absurd “birther” movement that falsely
questioned the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president.
His business career is checkered.
He isn’t leveling with the American people. Is Trump as rich as he
says? No one knows, in part because, alone among major party
presidential candidates for the past four decades, he refuses to
release his tax returns. Nor do we know whether he has paid his fair
share of taxes, or the extent of his foreign financial entanglements.
He speaks recklessly.
He has coarsened the national dialogue.
He’s a serial liar. Although polls show that Clinton is considered less
honest and trustworthy than Trump, it’s not even a close contest. Trump
is in a league of his own when it comes to the quality and quantity of
his misstatements.
.... resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote,
just not for Donald Trump.
Try
this exercise. Read the list again, substituting "Hillary" for "Trump," and "She" for "He." Which version makes any sense?
All this leaves me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I'm
terrified
by the abject ruthlessness of the Media commitment to defeat Trump at
any cost to their historical reputations. On the other hand, I
feel a
certain exhilaration that, from the very beginning, I was one of
millions who sensed that our nation's leaders are so corruptly in the
thrall of One Worlders that,
either we defang them in November, or go belly
up as a nation. With all that, I still vastly
underestimated the depth of viciousness they would employ. |
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