Update:
Hillary Clinton, for one, is not waiting until November to remind the American people who the real Donald Trump is.
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post tells us:
But if there are any lingering doubts over whether the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party are entering into the general election with a sufficiently aggressive posture, this new ad, just out from the Clinton camp, should begin to dispel them.
Please watch “this brutal new ad [that] shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump,” here, and the one next to the column.
Lest we forget
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Original Post:
As Donald Trump’s seemingly inexorable march towards clenching the Republican Party’s presidential nomination continues, it seems that most Republicans have already forgotten — or have chosen to forget — the shameful, obscene way in which their presumptive nominee insulted, “demagogued,” “charlataned” and lied his way to the top of their ticket.
However, come November, I hope that a sufficient number of responsible Americans will not have forgotten Trump’s astounding ignorance and incoherence on national security, foreign affairs, diplomacy and all matters of government, policy and Constitution.
Come November, I hope a sufficient number of decent Americans — including family values Conservatives — will not have forgotten this man’s thuggish, foul diatribe ranging from disparaging a woman’s most private bodily functions, to mocking a man’s disabilities, to condoning — even encouraging — violence at his rallies, all the way to bragging about his own anatomy and private parts and to hailing torture and mass killings of our enemies.
Come November, I hope a sufficient number of compassionate Americans — including compassionate Conservatives — will not have forgotten this demagogue’s vicious and never-ending stream of xenophobic, racist and misogynist rhetoric, especially against Mexican immigrants and Muslims, including Muslim-Americans.
Oh sure, the Trump chameleon has six months to change his colors, to “evolve,” to act civil — even “presidential.”
He will surround himself with experts in all matters and will start reading their notes from teleprompters.
He will try to “put in context,” modify, distance himself from — even disavow — his previous “toxic stew of hatred and insecurity.”
But no amount of contrived “conciliatory” words can even start to chip away at the mountain of bigotry, fear and hate so efficiently built-up by the mogul himself. No amount of “serious,” by-others-scripted words read from a teleprompter can even begin to fill the abyss of ignorance, inexperience and sheer incompetence so painfully demonstrated by this charlatan.
While Trump has demonized plenty of Muslim-Americans, come November let us especially remember that there are white headstones at Arlington National Cemetery and at other cemeteries marking the final resting place of American young men who gave their lives for their country in combat, who happened to be Muslim — Muslim-Americans.
For example, the headstone of Kareem Khan, a Specialist in the Stryker Brigade of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry division, who was just twenty years old when he, along with three other soldiers, was killed in August 2007 by a hidden bomb in Iraq.
Then there is the white headstone, also at Arlington (below), marking the final resting place of Muslim-American U.S. Army Captain Humayun S. M. Khan who was killed in Iraq by an improvised explosive device on June 8, 2004.
Referring to Kareem Khan, but valid for all Muslim-Americans, last September on the floor of the Senate, Senator Harry Reid said that Khan was one of nearly three million Muslim-Americans who, “are part of the fabric of America. They teach in our schools, fight in our military, and serve in Congress.”
Come November, let us not forget the real Donald Trump.
Photo by Michael Vadon – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46773055
