Charles M. Blow: The Hijacked American Presidency

[babylonsister]

The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
The Hijacked American Presidency
Charles M. Blow JULY 3, 2017


Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump’s parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth.

There is something insidious and corrosive about trying to evaluate the severity of every offense, trying to give each an individual grade on the scale of absurdity. Trump himself is the offense. Everything that springs from him, every person who supports him, every staffer who shields him, every legislator who defends him, is an offense. Every partisan who uses him — against all he or she has ever claimed to champion — to advance a political agenda and, in so doing, places party over country, is an offense.

We must remind ourselves that Trump’s very presence in the White House defiles it and the institution of the presidency. Rather than rising to the honor of the office, Trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness.

The presidency has been hijacked.

Last week, when Donald Trump attacked two MSNBC hosts, people were aghast. The condemnation came quickly and from all quarters.

But his words shouldn’t have shocked. His tweet was just another pebble on a mountain of vulgarities. This act of coarseness was in fact an act of continuity. Trump was being Trump: the grossest of the gross, a profanity against propriety.

This latest episode is simply part of a body of work demonstrating the man’s utter contempt for decency. We all know what it will add up to: nothing.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/opinion/trump-hijacked-american-presidency.html

[Dustlawyer]

1. Looked at another way, Trump is the opportunity to correct the problems with our Democracy that have

allowed someone so hateful, ignorant and inept to hold the highest office in the land! Election integrity, media propaganda, and most of all, the donation money that allows the wealthy to buy our representatives for their own ends and to our everlasting detriment.

Now that we are awake let us not squander this opportunity by electing others who will sell us out for more campaign bribes. Let us attack the root cause of most of our problems, campaign finance and media propaganda!

[El Mimbreno]

2. Best quote:

Charles Blow strikes another blow!

His tweet was just another pebble on a mountain of vulgarities. This act of coarseness was in fact an act of continuity. Trump was being Trump: the grossest of the gross, a profanity against propriety.