2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumKareem Abdul-Jabbar: This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders
Hemingway once said that courage was grace under pressure. Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have recently tested this proposition. And how each man responded revealed the type of person he is and the type of president he would make: Trump authored his own doom, and Sanders opened immense new possibilities as a compassionate person and serious candidate for president.
Heres where it went fatally wrong for Trump. During the GOP debate on Fox, when Megyn Kelly famously queried him about his attitude toward women (whom he has called fat pigs, dogs, slobs and animals) he hit back by threatening the questioner: Ive been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldnt do that.
Bad enough to alienate women in this way, but theres even more insidious political crime here: attacking the First Amendments protection of a free press by menacing journalists. I wouldnt do that, he said coyly. If you wouldnt do it, why bring up that you could? For no other reason than to stifle other journalists who might want to ask tough but reasonable questions. If Americans learned that a leader in another country was threatening reporters, we would be outraged. Yet here it is. Right here. Right now.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/02/kareem-abdul-jabbar-this-is-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders/
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