The Atlantic: A Clarifying Moment in American Hist

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The Atlantic: A Clarifying Moment in American History

Long story short.The gutless, perpetually frightened, Constitutionally illiterate and credulous dumb-asses finally got their president.

Revel in him, mf's. You won't have him for anywhere nearly as long as you hoped.

Too early for a baseball metaphor? Trump is just with us for a 'cup a coffee'. He's up in the 'bigs', but he can't hit a curve. LOL!

Eliot A. Cohen

This is one of those clarifying moments in American history, and like most such, it came upon us unawares, although historians in later years will be able to trace the deep and the contingent causes that brought us to this day.

There is nothing to fear in this fact; rather, patriots should embrace it. The story of the United States is, as Lincoln put it, a perpetual story of “a rebirth of freedom” and not just its inheritance from the founding generation.

Some Americans can fight abuses of power and disastrous policies directly—in courts, in congressional offices, in the press.

But all can dedicate themselves to restoring the qualities upon which this republic, like all republics depends: on reverence for the truth; on a sober patriotism grounded in duty, moderation, respect for law, commitment to tradition, knowledge of our history, and open-mindedness.

These are all the opposites of the qualities exhibited by this president and his advisers.

Trump, in one spectacular week, has already shown himself one of the worst of our presidents, who has no regard for the truth (indeed a contempt for it), whose patriotism is a belligerent nationalism, whose prior public service lay in avoiding both the draft and taxes, who does not know the Constitution, does not read and therefore does not understand our history, and who, at his moment of greatest success, obsesses about approval ratings, how many people listened to him on the Mall, and enemies.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/...ry/514868/

Excellent read.

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