What Hath the Electoral College Wrought?
by Thomas McAdams Deford
Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:01 AM
... the drama of this misfit about to march into the White House — and his dangerous thin-skinned reaction to just about anything — would be amusing to watch if only we were Canadians viewing the show from the frozen north ...
... the country has never in modern history been so divided on the eve of a new presidency. Barack Obama, with all the baggage he carried in much of white America, had a 79% favorable rating on entering the White House. Jimmy Carter’s was at 78%. And so on: Bill Clinton in the high 60s; the two Bushes a few points below. The least favorable rating for an incoming president, since this survey began four decades ago, was Ronald Reagan at 58%. But even Reagan, who for many Democrats was either a second-rate Hollywood actor or an ultra-conservative right-winger, had an unfavorable rating of only 18%. Trump’s unfavorables, at 54%, are three times that ...
... He’s publicly snubbed China in favor of Taiwan. He’s attacked NATO as obsolete and come out so strongly in support of Russia’s Vladimir Putin that Putin launched a public defense of Trump against his domestic US critics. His choice as the US ambassador to Israel has publicly espoused Israel’s annexing large parts of the West Bank, thus permanently assuring the impossibility of the two-state solution. He also wants to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv — the site of every foreign embassy — to Jerusalem, which would assure the evaporation of what little remaining influence the US has in the Arab world.
As Trump attacks the CIA director, in addition to belittling the pre-eminent civil rights hero Congressman John Lewis, one can’t help but think that Trump is not just an “ignoramus” as Cohen termed him, but somehow a weird mixture of narcissism and self-hatred. Is his goal to wrack up as many enemies in as many different constituencies as possible? If so, how will he survive the next four years? Indeed, how will the country? ...
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