Trump: Madman of the Year (Charles M. Blow, NYT)

[highplainsdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/opinion/trump-madman-of-the-year.html

So, Time magazine, ever in search of buzz, this week named Donald Trump Person of the Year. But they did so with a headline that read, “President of the Divided States of America.”

The demi-fascist of Fifth Avenue wasn’t flattered by that wording.

In an interview with the “Today” show, Trump huffed, “When you say divided states of America, I didn’t divide them. They’re divided now.” He added later, “I think putting divided is snarky, but again, it’s divided. I’m not president yet. So I didn’t do anything to divide.”

Donald, thy name is division. You and your campaign of toxicity and intolerance have not only divided this country but also ripped it to tatters.

-snip-

I feel like America is being flashed by a giant neuralyzer, à la “Men In Black.” We are in danger of forgetting what has happened and losing sight, in the fog of confusion and concealment, of the profundity of the menace taking shape right before us.

That is our challenge: To see clearly what this deceiver wants to obscure; to be resolute about that to which he wants us to be resigned; to understand that Time’s man of the year is, by words and deeds, more of a madman of the year.

[ismnotwasm]

1. "Nun-uh I didn't do it!'

Sounds like a Brat

[MotorCityMan]

7. The Repugs ALWAYS do that

Incite all this hatred and violence with their rhetoric, and then claim it's not their fault and had nothing to do with them.

[Raster]

2. And Vladmir Putin sits in the Kremlin and chuckles...

...Na zdrovia, Comrade Trump!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. I think the divisions existed before Trump got into politics

but he clearly and knowingly exacerbated the situation with his campaign (which lasted 1.5 years) and continues to do so with his "Thank You" tour to only the states that voted for him. He is a total shit head.

[Cha]

4. Oh yeah and fuckhead elect knows all about "snarky", doesn't he?

Dumbshite always sounds the opposite of intelligent.

Mahalo Charles Blow!

Thank you, hpd!

[NastyRiffraff]

5. Charles Blow does it again!

I'm liking him more and more. He calls out Trump with plain truth.

[world wide wally]

6. Trump is in effect saying, "I didn't INVENT racism"

A typical defense for his bullsht statements. He is actually correct, just totally misleading"