Saturday, May 21, 2016

Adam Gopnik "The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump."

++ Read the article in the latest New Yorker.

++"…under any label Trump is a declared enemy of the liberal constitutional order of the United States---the order that has made it,in fact,the great and plural country that it already is…

"" He announces his enmity to America by word and action every day. It is articulated by his insistence on the rightness of torture and the acceptable murder of noncombatants." (Gopnik also mentioned Trump's suggestion he could eliminate his enemies by questioning the ownership of the papers they worked for.)

++"The American Republic stands threatened by the first overtly anti-democratic leader in its modern history,an authoritarian with no grasp of history, no impulse control,and no apparent barriers on his will to power….

++"If Trump comes to power,there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over."

++Gopnik explains this by citing what happens in countries where Trump's take over and how the scars permanently maim the country and its ability ever to recover.

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