Mustang
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The following editorial was written by Michael Gerson who was a top aide and the director of speech writing for President George W. Bush.
The editorial can be found at the link below. What's written below the link are my own sentiments.
Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic
Just shy of 9 months into the Trump presidency with, presumably, another 1,116 days to go before the opportunity arrives to vote for someone else (almost anyone else, really) to return a semblance of sanity to the WH, it really does seems like an interminable amount of time to wait even as our nation feels like it's being held hostage because we're all forced to endure Trump's vanity, his narcissistic behavior, his constant and continuous prevarication, his woeful ignorance on any and all public policy issues, and his constant childish tantrums and twitter tirades. But you know what? I could live with that by simply tuning it all out if it wasn't for one thing. It's this: Trump is playing with fire. Specifically, he's playing with the fire and fury of nuclear weapons and an increasingly possible nuclear confrontation with another nuclear power with a country run by a man with little previous experience in gov't who entertains his whims with no one to restrain him. Sound familiar? Keep in mind that even before the election, Trump was quoted as asking why we couldn't use nuclear weapons. Apparently, he asked the question more than once when he was being briefed.
When I was a younger man, I used to take a great deal of pleasure when I was proven right about something. Well, months before last years election, I told people that I thought that there was something seriously wrong with Trump. As early evidence, I cited that long-running feud with Rosie O'Donnell that played out in the press and on the air waves. Even at the time, it seemed strange with a capital S. Well, here we are more than a year after I first told people what I thought, and the nation is getting a weekly (and sometimes a daily) dose of Trump's emotional instability, and even high ranking Republicans are so worried that they're starting to say publically what up until now they had only whispered in private. No one should underestimate the seriousness of their concerns if they're willing to do that particularly when, up until this very moment in time, the normal thing to do for any elected or appointed official within either political party was to protect the president. So, when they themselves start sounding the alarm bells, this is anything but politics as usual.
And now? I'm absolutely not taking any pleasure whatsoever in being right! That, I can tell you. Believe me!
The editorial can be found at the link below. What's written below the link are my own sentiments.
Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic
Just shy of 9 months into the Trump presidency with, presumably, another 1,116 days to go before the opportunity arrives to vote for someone else (almost anyone else, really) to return a semblance of sanity to the WH, it really does seems like an interminable amount of time to wait even as our nation feels like it's being held hostage because we're all forced to endure Trump's vanity, his narcissistic behavior, his constant and continuous prevarication, his woeful ignorance on any and all public policy issues, and his constant childish tantrums and twitter tirades. But you know what? I could live with that by simply tuning it all out if it wasn't for one thing. It's this: Trump is playing with fire. Specifically, he's playing with the fire and fury of nuclear weapons and an increasingly possible nuclear confrontation with another nuclear power with a country run by a man with little previous experience in gov't who entertains his whims with no one to restrain him. Sound familiar? Keep in mind that even before the election, Trump was quoted as asking why we couldn't use nuclear weapons. Apparently, he asked the question more than once when he was being briefed.
When I was a younger man, I used to take a great deal of pleasure when I was proven right about something. Well, months before last years election, I told people that I thought that there was something seriously wrong with Trump. As early evidence, I cited that long-running feud with Rosie O'Donnell that played out in the press and on the air waves. Even at the time, it seemed strange with a capital S. Well, here we are more than a year after I first told people what I thought, and the nation is getting a weekly (and sometimes a daily) dose of Trump's emotional instability, and even high ranking Republicans are so worried that they're starting to say publically what up until now they had only whispered in private. No one should underestimate the seriousness of their concerns if they're willing to do that particularly when, up until this very moment in time, the normal thing to do for any elected or appointed official within either political party was to protect the president. So, when they themselves start sounding the alarm bells, this is anything but politics as usual.
And now? I'm absolutely not taking any pleasure whatsoever in being right! That, I can tell you. Believe me!
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