Trump for Dummies. WSJ op-ed

[question everything]

By Bret Stephen (whose laments I have posted here many times)

Q: How can you call yourself a conservative columnist when you’re rooting for Hillary Clinton in this election?

A: Because Donald Trump is anti-conservative, un-American, immoral and dangerous... My fundamental objection to Mr. Trump is that he is unfit, as a person, to be president.

Q: Oh, please. I’ll grant he’s a bit rough around the edges, but that’s because he’s a nonpolitician. He’s also a brilliant businessman who made billions of dollars.

A: I might believe that claim if he would release his tax returns, or if six of his businesses hadn’t gone bankrupt, or if he hadn’t been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits, or if he didn’t routinely shortchange his suppliers or stiff his charities.

(snip)

Q: Still, you can’t argue with success.

A: What Mr. Trump has achieved isn’t success. It’s notoriety. He has more in common with Kanye West than he does with Steve Wynn. And he isn’t just rough around the edges. He’s rotten to the core.

(snip)

A: Except he doesn’t, starting with the Constitution. His plan to end birthright citizenship runs afoul of the 14th Amendment. His threat to “open up those libel laws” so he can sue his critics is a threat to press freedom. His attack on “Mexican” Judge Gonzalo Curiel was an assault on the American creed.

Q: That was just Trump spouting off.

A: What you call “spouting off” is an insight into Mr. Trump’s mind. It betrays an instinctive illiberalism. That’s why he attracts so much praise from Jean-Marie Le Pen and David Duke. It’s why he keeps praising Vladimir Putin... Putin isn’t respected. He’s feared. Any thoughtful conservative would sooner have an incompetent democratic government than an efficiently autocratic one.

(snip)

A: What makes you so sure that a man who disdains a strict interpretation of the Constitution would appoint strict constructionists?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nevertrump-for-dummies-1473722261

[underpants]

1. Damn, the WSJ Op-Ed page?

Yikes

[question everything]

4. He is a regular columnist

All of them were against Trump from the beginning. He is the only one that still holds the stand

[Jerry442]

2. Google "Bret Stephens Never Trump for Dummies". You can read all without paying.

Don't know why, exactly, but it worked for me.

[progressoid]

11. Yep. Thanks, that worked.

[Control-Z]

3. I would love to read the rest of this -

but it's hidden behind a paywall. Maybe someone with a subscription can post a little more of what follows your input.

[question everything]

5. See comment 2, above

I used to add this to my WSJ posts that google the title can bring them.

[Control-Z]

7. Yes, I saw post #2

just as I posted my reply. Thank you.

[vlyons]

6. excellent!

I especially like the bit about Loser being "immoral and dangerous"

[Wounded Bear]

8. Is anybody for Trump besides Dummies ?

[Binkie The Clown]

9. I wish I could read it, but I'm never going to pay 1 thin dime to the WSJ...

...since most of what they print is right-wing drivel pandering to the 1%.

[question everything]

13. See comment 2, above, about searching google (nt)

[Binkie The Clown]

14. Thanks. I missed that. n/t

[politicaljunkie41910]

10. Oh wow!!!! I love this. Particularly the one about notoriety vs success.

So when the GOP and their ilk start talking about Mr Trump being a successful businessman, we should all chime in that notoriety is not the same as successful. Trump is the notorious DJT. He is the Kanye West of the NY building industry. I also like the synonyms for notorious. I think they fit Trump to a "T".

Some of the synonyms for "notorious" found on Thesaurus. com are: dishonorable, disreputable, questionable, scandalous, shady, shameful, unadmirable one, wicked, belied

Yep I think these sum up Trump very well.

[Jade Fox]

12. "What Mr. Trump has achieved isn’t success. It’s notoriety."

Good quote.