Atlantic magazine: Against Donald Trump

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For only the 3rd time in their 159-year history, the Atlantic magazine is endorsing a candidate for President.

1) Abraham Lincoln
2) LBJ
3) Hillary Clinton

Good stuff

Against Donald Trump

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Today, our position is similar to the one in which The Atlantic’s editors found themselves in 1964. We are impressed by many of the qualities of the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, even as we are exasperated by others, but we are mainly concerned with the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, who might be the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency.

This judgment is not limited to the editors of The Atlantic. A large number—in fact, a number unparalleled since Goldwater’s 1964 campaign—of prominent policy makers and officeholders from the candidate’s own party have publicly renounced him. Trump disqualified himself from public service long before he declared his presidential candidacy. In one of the more sordid episodes in modern American politics, Trump made himself the face of the so-called birther movement, which had as its immediate goal the demonization of the country’s first African American president. Trump’s larger goal, it seemed, was to stoke fear among white Americans of dark-skinned foreigners. He succeeded wildly in this; the fear he has aroused has brought him one step away from the presidency.

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1. Liked Rachel Maddow's rept on this.

Besides this rare "endorsement" it's noteworthy that not a single paper has endorsed Trump — possibly a 1st in our country's history.