Are You Not Alarmed?
Charles M. Blow JAN. 19, 2017
Donald Trump told The Washington Post that he may have military parades in America like this one in North Korea in 2015. Credit Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
I continue to be astonished that not enough Americans are sufficiently alarmed and abashed by the dangerous idiocies that continue to usher forth from the mouth of the man who will on Friday be inaugurated as president of the United States.
Toss ideology out of the window. This is about democracy and fascism, war and peace, life and death. I wish that I could write those words with the callous commercialism with which some will no doubt read them, as overheated rhetoric simply designed to stir agitation, provoke controversy and garner clicks. But alas, they are not. These words are the sincere dispatches of an observer, writer and citizen who continues to see worrisome signs of a slide toward the exceedingly unimaginable by a man who is utterly unprepared.
In a series of interviews and testimonies Donald Trump and his cronies have granted in the last several days, they have demonstrated repeatedly how destabilizing, unpredictable and indeed unhinged the incoming administration may be. Their comments underscore the degree to which this administration may not simply alter our democracy beyond recognition, but also potentially push us into armed conflict.
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But where is your precedent for that? When has this man been cautious or considerate? This man with loose lips and tweeting thumbs may very well push us into another war, and not with a country like Afghanistan, but with a nuclear-armed country with something to prove.
Are you not alarmed?
Read More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opinion/are-you-not-alarmed.html?_r=1
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I try to stay calm, yet the man and his ilk are highly unstable. He is a child and thinks he is playing a video game. Unfortunately he is playing a game with our lives.
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