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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime to dump the presidential dilettante -- he's a cruel and incompetent failure
This is a powerfully worded article.
Donald Trump is blindingly cruel and stupid, and has done immense damage to America. This is our last chance
by BOB CESCA
OCTOBER 27, 2020 on Salon
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Trump's blinding dumbness in the areas of history, the Constitution, the presidency and democratic institutions has infected him with an ugly, bastardized view of his job description, inflamed by his own biases and whatever he's picked up from watching cable news. He's a presidential dilettante, even now, nearly four years into the gig.
His wafer-thin understanding of presidential leadership contributes to his most self-defeating misapprehension: that he's only the president of the red states. Everyone else is the enemy, even more so than our actual overseas adversaries surely more than Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, whom Trump praises more often than many of his fellow citizens and colleagues. The rest of us are only useful to him as punching bags and targets for his screechy, obscene, misspelled tweets and, more recently, his fascist police force. The upside of his deformed view of the presidency is that if he loses this election, it'll partly be because he refused to expand his support beyond his loyalists.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/10/27/time-to-dump-the-presidential-dilettante--hes-a-cruel-and-incompetent-failure/
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Time to dump the presidential dilettante -- he's a cruel and incompetent failure (Original Post)
SharonClark
Oct 2020
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Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)1. K&R
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)2. K&R
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)3. If he wins, say hello to President Ivanka in 2024
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)4. +1000 for the veiled Mr Creosote reference
pandr32
(11,582 posts)5. +1