Karen Tumulty opens her piece on the reaction of Donald "Rump" Trump to the deaths of two migrant children on the southern border with this observation:
With President Trump, there is no bottom. Every time you think you have seen it, he manages to sink even lower.
Leonard Pitts, Jr., on what, owing to Trump, we now stand for as a people:
“This isn’t us.” That’s what people keep saying. But it is. That’s the entire point. The abiding anger, the situational morality, the disregard for fact, the cruelty, the political gangsterism, these things are what America, writ large, now stands for.
It will get worse in 2019 as Rump and his family face multiple legal challenges and policy and investigatory challenges from the Democratic House. It will only get better if the "us" that's the majority in this country continue to resist until this ugly chapter in our history is ended.
2 comments:
I love Leonard Pitts and usually agree with him on everything. And I agree that we, as a nation, are coarser, crueller, and more hostile than ever before. I know that Trump's influence has opened that door, that he gave power to those who would be ugly and filled with hate.
But I think we are still a majority, a country of honesty, kindness, and good. Some of us feel frustrated because our goodness is being overshadowed by the louder voices of evil. We are under-represented in the media and in our government. But that's changing in a few days, when we gain a small toehold on our democracy again. Hopefully then the new leadership will be heard and we can make progress toward being a decent society.
We'll never be perfect. But we can move forward on a different path. I'm the least optimistic person around, but I have to believe we can regain some ground. It's going to be tough, but it's got to be done.
donnah -- well said!
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