Charles M. Blow: First They Came For ...

[babylonsister]

The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
‘First They Came For ...’
Charles M. Blow
JULY 27, 2017


It is no longer sufficient to brand Donald Trump as abnormal, a designation that is surely applicable but that falls significantly short in registering the magnitude of the menace.

The standard nomenclature of normal politics must be abandoned. What we are witnessing is nothing less than an assault on the fundamentals of the country itself: on our legacy institutions and our sense of protocol, decency and honesty.

In any other circumstance, we might likely write this off as the trite protestations of a man trapped in a toddler’s temperament, full of meltdowns, magical thinking and make believe. But this man’s vindictiveness and mendacity are undergirded by the unequaled power of the American president, and as such he has graduated on the scale of power from toddler to budding tyrant.

This threat Trump poses — to our morals, ethics, norms and collective sense of propriety — may be without equal from a domestic source.

Everything he is doing is an assault and matters on some level.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/opinion/donald-trump-scouts-tradition.html

[Solly Mack]

1. He's behaving as a tyrant.

He should be treated as such.

He should be ousted as such.

And as a tyrant, his entire entourage should be treated no better than what a tyrant deserves.

Tyrants do not deserve freedom.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What we are witnessing is incremental destruction of our democratic and constitutional system.

Trump is doing it by nihilism, condemnation, and diversion.

The tragedy is that the republican party is allowing him to do so.

[Bettie]

6. Not allowing

him to do it...they are cheering him on.

[Chipper Chat]

3. A mass march on the White House

by 2 million people might do it.

[hurple]

8. And we can follow up

By hitting them had and heavy with a major leaflet campaign.

It'll have about the same impact.

[Hekate]

4. KnR

[Perseus]

5. This paragraph

"This has come as a great shock and demoralizer to many Americans, not necessarily because they didn’t think Trump was capable of such depravity, but because they simply were unprepared for the daily reality of living a nightmare."

Anyone who is shocked was not paying attention, he has been showing his true colors for a long, long time, and to think that he was not capable of such depravity was in a different planet. Trump's biography should be called "The art of depravity, the life of Donald Trump".

I am not shocked at all, I have never been able to give him the benefit of the doubt, because when you understand that the guy has not concept of consequence then you know he is capable of anything, and when I say "anything", I mean anything bad. People who feel entitled, in his case with a high narcissistic quotient, and zero understanding of consequence cannot do well, and to give him the benefit of the doubt is to close your eyes, and ears.

A man who cannot utter a paragraph with any meaning, who cannot stop praising himself at every turn because in fact he has an inferiority complex and needs the reassurance of the only person who will give it to him, himself (of course he now has the 'moonch'), shows how deep his inferiority complex is.

Trump is an abomination, and so are all the republicans who support anything he does.

[secondwind]

7. K&R