There are many reasons to
dislike Donald Trump as a candidate. And
as much as I would like to focus on his policies, whatever they really are, I
have to take a moment to rehearse some of the more egregious personal attacks
that in my mind reveal the utter lack of character necessary for the leader of
this nation.
There is a reason I find
this exercise necessary. Politics has
gotten ugly in the age of Alinsky. His “Rules
for Radicals” suggests as a legitimate strategy the practice of isolating
individuals as figureheads and then demonizing them with lies and
ridicule. It forces them to waste time
responding to charges that ultimately have no defense and distracts the rank
and file from real issues. It has been a
tactic of the left for years and one I find utterly opposed to the practice of
democracy.
So to see Donald Trump and
his minions using such ugly, immoral and unprincipled tactics and using them
successfully means that the right side of the political spectrum has sunk to
the same gutter as the thugs of the left.
What good is “winning” the Republican nomination if one utterly shreds
any principles that once were a normative part of a civilized society built on
self-government? (More)
