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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Trump Presidency Is Over [View all]
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain.March 13, 2020
Peter Wehner
Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC
When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?
What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfitintellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologicallyfor office. For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point its reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisisand at that point, the presidents judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.
Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them is how I put it four years ago. No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness. I added this:
Mr. Trumps virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
Mr. Trumps virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
It took until the second half of Trumps first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and its hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
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Be that as it may, that stool sample in a cheap suit still blights the White House.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#1
It's not the House of Reps who do that voting - it's the State houses and the Rs now hold about 33
eleny
Mar 2020
#12
If God Himself came down to Earth and told me there was a 100% chance that Trump would lose
Aristus
Mar 2020
#17
You nailed it. He will lie in plain sight. He will take obvious failings and make them look like
Blue_true
Mar 2020
#33
Team trDump, trDumpie, Parscale, Kushner, and Miller are so good at manipulating the media....
magicarpet
Mar 2020
#19
Just to be clear, Trump controls the largest nuclear arsenal in the history of the world.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2020
#14
He just out-polled Biden in "trusted to handle the pandemic". I know, it's just sickening.
bullwinkle428
Mar 2020
#22
The Trump Catastrophe. The virus killed people, tRump made it a Catastrophe. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#24
Yeah, we knew a national, or global, fuckup of epic proportions was coming as long as Trump...
LudwigPastorius
Mar 2020
#29