Flagpole wrote:
3) No one is making Trump look like a gentleman. He can never be that and never will be. He is as crass as can be, a trait you Trumpers seem to relish.
I'm reminded of what Mencken wrote in his obituary for William Jennings Bryan:
He was a vulgar and common man, a cad undiluted. He was ignorant, bigoted, self-seeking, blatant and dishonest. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses. It was hard to believe, watching him at Dayton, that he had traveled, that he had been received in civilized societies, that he had been a high officer of state. He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.
The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.
At least back then Americans had the good sense not to elect someone like Bryan president...