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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/guess-who-just-unleashed-the-most-scathing-damnation-of-trump-loving-republicans/Michael Gerson, the former chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush, has penned an amazing new piece not only against Donald Trump but against any Republicans who might support him.
Gerson wrote Thursday on Facebook:
Trumps magical policy thinking, setting goals with no serious thought of how they might be achieved; his menacing encouragement of political violence; his disdain for ethnic and religious minorities, which has unleashed and emboldened racists and anti-Semites of every sort; his penchant for conspiracy theories, including a very dangerous vaccine denialism; his promises to conduct the war on terrorism by ordering war crimes, which would set up a constitutional crisis when the US military honorably refuses; his cynical manipulation of gullible religious leaders with tactics that border on blasphemy; his casual use of lies, which he defends even when exposed.
How does any of this return lost greatness to our nation? Sometimes I want to shake people (intellectually,not physically) who favor political disruption and ask: Disruption in favor of what? Look at what you are doing! Look at what you have done! The Republican Party is now firmly harnessed to the wild, uncontrollable horses of fear and exclusion. It has already sustained damage with Latino voters that may take a generation to undo. And now many Republicans will find rationalizations to support Trump. That is natural the reality of politics in every time. Many people simply go with the winner. But this isnt a normal time. I believe that the decision to support Trump, like an embarrassing tattoo, will follow them the rest of their lives. Republicans are not merely making a choice; they are looking into the abyss.
In a separate column at The Washington Post, to which Gerson also linked in the Facebook piece, he concluded that voting for Trump would be so immoral, he might even have to do something truly outrageous vote for Hillary Clinton: All this leaves completely horrible options: sitting the election out, supporting a third-party candidate, contemplating a difficult vote for Clinton. But these are the only honorable options.
Gerson wrote Thursday on Facebook:
Trumps magical policy thinking, setting goals with no serious thought of how they might be achieved; his menacing encouragement of political violence; his disdain for ethnic and religious minorities, which has unleashed and emboldened racists and anti-Semites of every sort; his penchant for conspiracy theories, including a very dangerous vaccine denialism; his promises to conduct the war on terrorism by ordering war crimes, which would set up a constitutional crisis when the US military honorably refuses; his cynical manipulation of gullible religious leaders with tactics that border on blasphemy; his casual use of lies, which he defends even when exposed.
How does any of this return lost greatness to our nation? Sometimes I want to shake people (intellectually,not physically) who favor political disruption and ask: Disruption in favor of what? Look at what you are doing! Look at what you have done! The Republican Party is now firmly harnessed to the wild, uncontrollable horses of fear and exclusion. It has already sustained damage with Latino voters that may take a generation to undo. And now many Republicans will find rationalizations to support Trump. That is natural the reality of politics in every time. Many people simply go with the winner. But this isnt a normal time. I believe that the decision to support Trump, like an embarrassing tattoo, will follow them the rest of their lives. Republicans are not merely making a choice; they are looking into the abyss.
In a separate column at The Washington Post, to which Gerson also linked in the Facebook piece, he concluded that voting for Trump would be so immoral, he might even have to do something truly outrageous vote for Hillary Clinton: All this leaves completely horrible options: sitting the election out, supporting a third-party candidate, contemplating a difficult vote for Clinton. But these are the only honorable options.
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Guess who just unleashed the most scathing damnation of Drumpf-loving Republicans (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
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patricia92243
(12,597 posts)1. It is a long way of saying "we don't like the monster we created."
AxionExcel
(755 posts)2. Hell, when you come down to it, voting for Republicans is immoral
Americans should vote for people who support America. Republicans have shown no such tendency or loyalty on that score.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)4. Republicans have shown no such tendency or loyalty on that score.
Not since Eisehower, as I understand history, and as I've been told countless times by people who lived in the 50s and remember.
Blue Dalek
(178 posts)3. Repubs made thier bed now they should die in it.
Thanks for the post
LAS14
(13,783 posts)5. Thank God for Republicans who are willing..
... to speak up clearly. Republicans who see the game-changing seriousness of the plight we're in.