A shriveled emptiness where his soul once resided
By Michael Gerson
August 17 at 7:23 PM
... This might be defensible — if you leave out the 400 years of oppression, segregation, violence and cruelty that black people have experienced in North America. If you leave out a bloody Civil War started by slave interests to defend an economic system based on theft of labor and the lash. If you leave out the millions shot, gassed and incinerated under the Nazi flag, their wedding rings and gold fillings carefully collected by their killers. If you leave out every grave of every American who fought and died to defeat fascism and militarism ...
... moral equivalence is an option — for those who are willfully blind to history and have a shriveled emptiness where their soul once resided.
This is now, sadly, an accurate description of the United States’ 45th?president, who felt compelled to reveal his true convictions ...
Now the operative question is not "Should Bannon leave?" It has become: "Why should anyone not named Bannon stay at the White House?" ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-is-a-shriveled-emptiness-where-trumps-soul-once-resided/2017/08/17/bb9edd22-8370-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?utm_term=.f45987b8a348
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