Why we took a stand on Trump

[Zorro]

Why now?

That question cropped up repeatedly, from President Trump’s supporters as well as his critics, after we launched our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.

The answer is simple. Even though we’re only 11 weeks into the Trump presidency, there is good reason to believe that rather than grow into the job, he’ll remain the man he was on the campaign trail — impulsive, untruthful, narcissistic, ignorant of the limits on presidential power and woefully unprepared to wield it. Rather than wait until the public grew inured to the lies, the undermining of democratic institutions, the demagoguery and bluster, we decided to lay out our concerns at length and in detail.

The Times editorial board is a group of nine men and women that functions like an independent newsroom within the newspaper, metaphorically walled off from the news reporters. Unlike those reporters, whose job is to write objectively and dispassionately about the news, our job is to write opinion.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-trump-series/

[PsychoBabble]

1. Amen.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Words matter. A perfect example of the problem...

"there is good reason to believe that rather than grow into the job, he’ll remain the man he was on the campaign trail — impulsive, untruthful, narcissistic, ignorant of the limits on presidential power and woefully unprepared to wield it."

OF COURSE! The best way to predict future behavior is to look at past behavior. The idiot is 70. I cannot understand why anyone thought or thinks it would be or could be any different.

I hear this every day when listening to the radio - mincing words, weak false equivalent type statements.

Yes, it is good that this was written and appeared in the newspaper. But for most of us here, of course there is no surprise at all - we all knew this!

[dalton99a]

3. That was a great series.