(December 13, 2017 at 1:06 am)Minimalist Wrote: As a president he is a Mussolini-class buffoon. As a man he is a fucking pig.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...945947001/
An editorial in tomorrow's USA TODAY.
Quote:A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.
This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.
Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.
Hold on now. I agree with the description of 45 as not being normal politics, and was saying this when he started his run.
And sure, as inept as I thought Bush Jr was, I would also agree that he never rose to any despot rhetoric scapegoating everyone.
BUT to say that Obama failed, at even the same level as Bush Jr is flat out wrong. No, he couldn't deliver 100% and no president can. But between what Bush Jr left us with, and what Obama left us with, the math is still in, Obama STILL did a far better job.
As half hearted as this admission is, where were these voices last year? Why were they not listening to GOP intel agents WARNING THEM?
45 is a result of long term planning by the GOP, regardless of the seeming growing buyers remorse. The GOP was always using coded dog whistle language to paint the left as commies and anti private sector. They were using dog whistle code to paint right wing Christians as the real victims. All 45 did was stop hiding it.
But yea, even with that, you'd have to go back to the days of segregation to find politicians unafraid to be bigoted dicks.
Reagan nor Bush Sr or Bush Jr EVER spoke in the dangerous scapegoating way 45 has. But the underpinnings of their support, the fear of times changing, the fear of progress, the entire time, has been the GOP base.
I only hope enough dems realize that we cant afford to let the GOP divide us now, especially now. I hope this win in a deeply red state also says we can win.
