Terry Moran "We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man"

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Dragging America Down to His Level
No human being should be called "garbage." But Trump's second term is trashing our country


In the Cabinet Room yesterday, President Trump said that Somali-Americans are “garbage” and that he wants them out of the United States.

No president has ever spoken like this to the American people. Not one. We’ve had good presidents and bad presidents. Great leaders and party hacks. Crooks, liars, and lechers; brave heroes, visionaries, kind men. None of them were saints; each brought to the office their unique strengths—and their inner demons, too.

But all of them, to one degree or another, sought to maintain a sense of decency and dignity in the only office designed by our Founders to represent the whole American nation. That high honor chastened most of them in their rhetoric, inspired some to soaring leadership, and drew at least an outer boundary of public speech for presidents.

This ethic of presidential rhetoric isn’t some prissy, schoolmarmish rule. It is a quintessentially American act of respect for the people of this country, an acknowledgment in the semi-formal diction of public pronouncements by presidents that the power any president holds does not, in fact, belong to him. It’s ours. He works for us.

But Donald Trump is a megalomaniac, and he acknowledges no boundaries. That is disgraceful, of course. It is also dangerous—and exhausting. We are all living inside the mind of this broken, ferocious man.

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