Asked whether he would accept defeat, Trump answered at last night’s debate: “I’ll look at it at the time.”<\/p>\n
As regular readers know, I’ve grown increasingly to appreciate the writings of James Michener over the past couple of years; he was not, as sometimes said by the artsy crowd, a mere entertainer. The novel Space<\/i> is extraordinarily prescient with respect to many of the issues now wracking the country, and his valedictory, This Noble Land<\/i>, could have been written after last night’s debate.<\/p>\n 3. Does the nation have a political system that ensures peaceful transition of power from liberal to conservative and vice versa?<\/p>\n One of the glories of American and British government is the orderly way in which such transfers of power occur. In the United States we have an election on a Tuesday and by eleven o’clock that night the entire nation knows and accepts the fact that a new political power is now in charge.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently, The Donald is so megalomaniacal that he is prepared to upend that honorable American distinctive if he “looks at it” and doesn’t like what he sees.<\/p>\n Is another krystallnacht<\/i> in the offing? Though most of us look at Trump and see a buffoonish cartoon character, I am convinced that he and the insane mob that follow him around are quite capable of it — and that too many Republicans are whorish opportunists who will look away. The greatest threat the Republic faces today is Donald Trump, and he must<\/i> be not merely defeated, but humiliated<\/i> and cast out of public life forever on November 8th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asked whether he would accept defeat, Trump answered at last night’s debate: “I’ll look at it at the time.” As regular readers know, I’ve grown increasingly to appreciate the writings of James Michener over the past couple of years; he … Continue reading \n