Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
10.21.2016
We are in the last three weeks of the campaign for President of the
United States.
Last week marked the end of the presidential debates between the
Democratic Party’s nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and the
Republican Party’s nominee, television personality Donald Trump, the T-Rump.
The two of them wrapped up the third and final debate, in what was the most
substantive of their contests, in which both candidates performed better than
they had in the previous two debates, even though T-Rump continued to talk
fact-free, to fidget, to sniffle, to cast insults, call names, and at the end
suggested that he would not concede the race if he lost.
This would be a first in American politics, it is a threat to cyclical, peaceful
transfer of power from one administration to the next that has been the
hallmark of our Republic.
This is not new for T-Rump. During the primaries, while he eventually promised
to support the Republican nominee, if it should turn out to not be him; after
that promise was extracted from him, he began to cast doubt on it by suggesting
that he would not support the nominee if he lost in a contest that he deemed to
be unfair.
T-Rump knows he losing, but he cannot entertain the thought, his mental illness
is such that he can only admit to losing if the conditions were not fair; in
which case he did not lose at all, but he was cheated.
His rhetoric three weeks before the election has encouraged people in the
crowds at his rallies to suggest that if T-Rump loses there will be an armed
revolution, that Hillary should be forcibly removed from office, and the
government should be overthrown.
T-Rump has not called for the violent overthrow of the government. But he
has not condemned the people in his crowds who are speaking this way. And he
has told Hillary that if by some miracle he should win, he would lock her up,
put her in jail; despite the fact that she has never been charged with a crime.
I believe that Donald Trump is a threat to our Democracy. While he
promotes himself as a defender of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution;
an appeal to his armed and radical followers, whom he has asked to provide “2nd
Amendment remedies” on his behalf should he lose; at the same time he threatens
to lock up journalists, deny the freedom of the press, approve standards of
religious persecution, commit torture, deny people due process and etc…
Vote…Bury Donald Trump in a landslide!
