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Jerry442

(1,265 posts) Thu Nov 3, 2016, 09:14 AM Nov 2016

Charles M. Blow says "WTF?!"

OK, not literally, and nothing really new, but an excellent summary of Trumpian issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/opinion/campaign-stops/trump-is-an-existential-threat.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Apologies if this has been already posted.

On edit, some excerpts as requested:

I simply cannot wrap my head around how others with level heads and sound minds can even consider Trump for president of this country and leader of the free world. The logic simply escapes me.

I try to view it through the lens of economic anxiety, diminished economic mobility and global pressure. It all seems understandable, but then I’m reminded of Donald Trump, a billionaire whose businesses have on more than one occasion gone bankrupt, who stiffed contractors, who outsources the making of many of his products and who brags about not paying federal income taxes. All of which brings me back to: Are you kidding me?

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There is no way to make a vote for him feel like an act of principle or responsibility. You can’t make it right. You can’t say yes to Trump and yes to common decency. Those two things do not together abide.

If you are voting for Trump, you are voting for coarseness, corruption and moral corrosion. Period. And if you are not actively voting against him, you are abetting his attempt to hijack American greatness and sink it with his egotism.