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Trump’s threat to democracy
Where does one look for a political equivalent in a year
when the president’s supporters chanted “send her back” about a nonwhite member of Congress?
Manhattan society long viewed the reality host’s career as
the vulgar elevation of a trashy aesthetic,
but millions of Americans always saw something more.
Republican and Democratic leaders alike shared Sen. Lindsey O. Graham’s view that
the future president was a clown who had neither the character nor intelligence to be America’s next commander in chief.
Then, at last, I saw this reality TV president as
a malevolent character, inspiring fascist chants
while proving to be more hapless than any of his 43 predecessors.
All versions of Trump have been cynical and manipulative,
but his latest incarnation has proved to be destructive to his party, his country and the world.
only a weak man speaks endlessly of his strength and
only an ignorant man brags incessantly of his wisdom.
Adm. William McRaven — the man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden — believes Donald Trump is the greatest threat facing American democracy.
How voters respond to that danger in the new year may well determine the arc of our future for a generation to come.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-threat-to-democracy/2019/12/30/c8531bc8-2b2f-11ea-bcd4-24597950008f_story.html
