Leonard Pitts Jr.: Who cares what's wrong with Do

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Who cares what's wrong with Donald Trump? *What's wrong with us?

*Proudly, defiantly and decidedly unashamedly, I'm not 'us'!

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-column...73023.html

If nothing else, in six months, President Trump “has taught us to live in a state of perpetual chaos and continuous crisis.”

Associated Press

July 14, 2017 5:20 PM
Who cares what’s wrong with Donald Trump? What’s wrong with us?

BY LEONARD PITTS, JR.



Indeed, from the studios of CNN to the bar stools of your neighborhood watering hole, amateur psychoanalysis has become America’s favorite pastime in the last six months. Dozens of theories have been floated, all aimed at answering one question:

What is wrong with him?

But I have come to believe that question misses the point. Sixty-three million people voted for this. And make no mistake, they knew what they were getting. It was always obvious that Trump was a not-ready-for-prime-time candidate, but they chose him anyway. And the rest of us need to finally come to grips with the reason why.

It wasn’t economic anxiety. As a study co-sponsored by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic reported in May, people who were worried for their jobs voted for Hillary Clinton.

But people who dislike Mexicans and Muslims, people who oppose same-sex marriage, people mortally offended at a White House occupied by a black guy with a funny name, they voted for Trump.

That’s the reality, and it’s time we quit dancing around it.

This has been said a million times: Donald Trump is a lying, narcissistic, manifestly incompetent child man who is as dumb as a sack of mackerel.

But he is the president of the United States because 63 million people preferred that to facing inevitable cultural change. So I am done asking — or caring — what’s wrong with him.

Six months in, it’s time we grappled a far more important question.

What in the world is wrong with us?

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