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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Frum was once 'Trump-curious' but now says his presidency is like America's gum disease
Tuesday January 23, 2018
David Frum was once 'Trump-curious' but now says his presidency is like America's gum disease
Donald Trump's presidency is corroding American democracy like "gum disease," according to a former speechwriter for George W. Bush.
"With Donald Trump, it's not a sudden seizure, not a heart attack, it's gum disease," says David Frum, who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine.
"You can die from gum disease, but you don't die right away. Your body just corrodes and it begins to emit toxins, and the toxins get into the bloodstream and those toxins eventually affect the heart and you can die."
In a wide-ranging conversation, Frum tells The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti that he believes U.S. democracy is being slowly undermined, and that those installed to keep Trump's power in check have become his greatest enablers.
In his new book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, Frum writes that "the thing to fear from the Trump presidency is not the bold overthrow of the Constitution, but the stealthy paralysis of governance. Not the defiance of law, but an accumulating subversion of norms. Not the deployment of state power to intimidate dissidents, but the incitement of private violence to radicalize supporters."
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David Frum was once 'Trump-curious' but now says his presidency is like America's gum disease (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2018
OP
We already see it with the reaction or rather lack of reaction in the payoff of the porn star
JI7
Jan 2018
#1
LOL tRUMP curious...so what's that?? You are sexually attracted to orange people? n/t
Kirk Lover
Jan 2018
#4
JI7
(89,262 posts)1. We already see it with the reaction or rather lack of reaction in the payoff of the porn star
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. I was once Sanders curious, even hopeful. Everyone should
thoroughly research and consider very thoughtfully all our possible choices. Of course, if I were conservative and believed sincerely in what are today's conservative goals (how likely is that!?), I'd have set aside my shock and disgust at what was happening to consider if somehow Trump could be used to achieve them.
I listen whenever Frum speaks. He understands what today's Republican Party has become and how they're likely to react, with more insight than most who parade an "outside" viewpoint.
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)3. The "gum disease" remark scored some points with me.
I am always of two minds over David Frum. On the one hand, I think he's very very smart. On the other, his right-wing leanings make me foam at the mouth. Nice shot, Mr. Frum!
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)4. LOL tRUMP curious...so what's that?? You are sexually attracted to orange people? n/t
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)5. Loosening the teeth of the constitution. nt