foul tirades demean
presidency, the country …
every one of us
In today’s Opinion Conversation in the New York Times between Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens headlined, The Second Coming of Trump, Mr. Bruni states:
I think it’s a mistake to become too practiced at shrugging off his depravity — which is a non-hysterical, wholly accurate word for it.
I agree that focusing exclusively or excessively on it and hyperventilating is a waste of good breath, but his foul tirades demean the presidency, demean the country — demean every one of us — and it’s important that we never forget that.
We can’t let those tirades become the new idiom for political discourse; we can’t pretend they haven’t diminished our standing in the world.
“That’s just Trump being Trump” is an inadequate response when, for example, he posts a video of himself as a pilot dumping torrents of excrement on protesters. (That was his A.I. gift to us in October.)
Mr. Stephens replied:
I agree.
Yet 77 million Americans voted for him.
That’s the country we live in.
We can’t pretend.
If the latest images that man currently in office showing him as Jesus and with Jesus do not offend you as a Christian then I feel I am on solid ground when I point out that you have plank in your eye.
I got lots of planks in my eye but the one I am pointing at in yours will cause you to take paths you don’t want to be on.
It’s important that we never forget.
God is not mocked.
The foul tirades of that current man in office demean the presidency.
The foul tirades of that current man in office demean the country.
The foul tirades of that current man in office demean every one of us.
And that is bad enough by itself.
But I repeat.
It’s important that we never forget.
God is not mocked.
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