The American Human: Donald Trump Tweets His Way into the Doghouse. How Much Longer Can His People Defend Him?

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Donald Trump Tweets His Way into the Doghouse. How Much Longer Can His People Defend Him?

Many were alarmed that a man as coarse and undisciplined -- especially when attacked -- as Donald Trump made his way to the White House. That alarm is proven almost daily to be prescient.

Oh, would Sarah Huckabee Sanders like to say, "not my job" defending Trump.

Tough luck Sarah. It's your job. How much dirtier a job can you stand? I won't be surprised if we discover soon there's a limit. Not to Trump's reckless and tasteless urges, though.

Case in point:

I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

In short, this behavior is indefensible. Odds he never crosses this line again? Takers?

Paul Krugman put it succinctly:

Trump is a terrible person, but we knew that. I can't be the only one feeling that this is something more -- some kind of breakdown 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 29, 2017

Sanders put it badly:

For the most part, I've enjoyed the various jobs I've had in life, feeling that I was adding to, not subtracting from, our greater society both here and abroad (Not even slightly claiming to be perfect!). If I were Sanders, though, I'd be tempted to take off the mic and walk, never to look back.

Trump's team will, at some point, start to do that. How many are thinking harder about that today?

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1. Civilized societies require the rule of law.
2. Science is my preferred method for examining and understanding reality.
3. Religion is superstition.
4. An educated society is a healthy society.
5. Democratic governments are by their very nature socialist.
6. Market economies are by their very nature capitalist.
7. Markets are not (entirely) efficient or rational and thus require regulation.
8. Don’t confuse politics with public policy.
9. Civil discourse requires rational argument, even if yelling or stomping your feet or name-calling is more fun.
10. If you consider making stuff up a viable tactic, you are disallowed from civil discourse.
11. Puritanism is America’s original sin.
12. Income redistribution is good for society, hoarding is not.
13. Everybody, from time to time, needs help.

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The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.