I made History too familiar over the course of my life, beyond the several degrees in the subject. Understanding history allows a perspective simply not available to those who live in ignorance of the past. I very much appreciate the ability to gain that perspective, to work hard for it every single day, in fact. To the degree any of us can stand outside our own time and place, the perspective of history aids in that effort like few other studies can. So, I judge Trump from that perspective, and understand there is nothing all that new under the sun.
He is a dishonorable man to be willing to marginalize large groups of our fellow citizens, simply to satisfy his goal of attaining the Presidency. To turn Mexican Americans into....The Other.
To turn Muslim Americans into....The Other.
In service to his needs. How can anyone respect that?
What kind of man, arrives on the scene, and sets out to turn millions of Americans into The Other? Did not another demagogue in another nation do just that to other groups of innocent people? How did that turn out? What citizens of a republic would invite that into the body politic? Why not wish cancer upon ourselves? Right now, Donald Trump is that cancer in the body politic.
In response to Orlando, he praises himself for "getting it right." Did we actually need him to know we would likely suffer ISIS inspired attacks? His first thoughts are of himself. Not his countrymen. Not his country. Himself. Why would I want to see such a dishonorable man as President? To the entire world, including our enemies, he hints that our sitting President is on the side of ISIS. His authorities? The purveyors of conspiracy theory. Why would I want to put such a mental midget in charge of the Executive branch of our government? He himself a purveyor of conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory.
A populist who appeals to the baser instincts in man. The ideologies may differ, the tactics of the demagogue are the very same. How anyone can support that is beyond me.