"Our Dishonest President"

[NastyRiffraff]

The first in a four-part series by the LA Times editorial board. The first two are online now. I subscribed to the digital edition on the basis of this series.

(I)t was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
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What is most worrisome about Trump is Trump himself. He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation. His obsession with his own fame, wealth and success, his determination to vanquish enemies real and imagined, his craving for adulation — these traits were, of course, at the very heart of his scorched-earth outsider campaign; indeed, some of them helped get him elected. But in a real presidency in which he wields unimaginable power, they are nothing short of disastrous.

Although his policies are, for the most part, variations on classic Republican positions (many of which would have been undertaken by a President Ted Cruz or a President Marco Rubio), they become far more dangerous in the hands of this imprudent and erratic man. Many Republicans, for instance, support tighter border security and a tougher response to illegal immigration, but Trump’s cockamamie border wall, his impracticable campaign promise to deport all 11 million people living in the country illegally and his blithe disregard for the effect of such proposals on the U.S. relationship with Mexico turn a very bad policy into an appalling one.
LA times
And the second in the series: Why Trump Lies

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The series is superbly written.

I think they should get a Pulitzer for it.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. I think so too

They call things by their right names. Dump is going to go nuclear if he reads it (or someone reads it to him).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I thought it was damn clever that they manage to call him a liar...

without ever using the word.