Trump Spars With Grieving Widow
In retrospect you can see the foreshadowing of Trump’s disdain for the military made apparent by a recent report appearing in The Atlantic that he on more than one occasion referred to our men and women who died, were injured or were captured in combat as “suckers” and “losers”. It started with his feud with a Gold Star family while on the campaign trail. And at the time many thought that the story that prompted the post below a few months later, as awful as it is, was a reflection of Trump’s lack of empathy and general tough guy persona. But it was so much more even then. It was a clarion warning that he was unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time if they are complicit in the foolishness, Trump supporters do not care that he is the Liar-in-Chief, They do not care that he is El Supremo Racisto. They do not care that he is a danger to democracy and a threat to our species. They do not care that he is not just amoral but immoral. They do not care that he lacks the capacity to feel empathy or compassion, genuine or otherwise. They do not care that he is too dumb to be an idiot. All they care about is that he put those “others” in their place. In a better America his approval rating would be in single digits. But sadly it is not. And more telling than any of his antics is the fact that his supporters are unmoved by them. Trump remains in an office he colluded his way in to and is clearly unfit to hold because too many of us want him there. This is not the moonrise after our darkest day but the sunset before our blackest night.