The way I see it, it’s our job to make sure @realDonaldTrump ends this campaign every bit the loser that he started it.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) March 21, 2016
People talk about how “this is the most important election” in our lifetime every four years, and it gets stale. But consider what hangs in the balance. Affordable college. Accountability for Wall Street. Healthcare for millions of Americans. The Supreme Court. Big corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes. Expanded Social Security. Investments in infrastructure and medical research and jobs right here in America. The chance to turn our back on the ugliness of hatred, sexism, racism and xenophobia. The chance to be a better people.
Racist. Demagogue. Bully. Blowhard. Tyrant. Fascist. Loser. Short-fingered vulgarian. These epithets (and more) may well be true, but the frustration they represent camouflages the fact that Donald Trump is almost certainly the Republican Presidential nominee presumptive. If he’s the nominee, it’s not exactly a stretch to envision him standing before Chief Justice John Roberts with his right hand on a Bible.
Sen. Warren’s right, of course; EVERY election seems to be “the most important election of our lifetime.” When you consider what’s at stake this time around…well, yeah…this is important. Right now, the three scariest words in the English language are “President Donald Trump.”
Sen. Warren’s criticism of Trump, though impolite and undiplomatic, is spot on…if for no other reason than Trump is as crude as he is undiplomatic. His bombastic, fact-challenged response to Sen. Warren amply demonstrates the accuracy of her assessment of Trump’s (lack of) character. Simply put, the man’s a pig.
America deserves better than a two-bit misogynist and bully with a bad haircut and a need to overcompensate.
Poll: Majority of Americans want to punch Trump in the face https://t.co/7P0Efc3aqx pic.twitter.com/fd8hOfzkXb
— The Hill (@thehill) March 22, 2016
We can debate at some length whether this election is the most important one in our lifetime, but what is beyond question is the reality of what’s at stake. Matters of policy aside, the biggest question is that of our national character. Do we want to give in to hatred, racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia and allow those steeped in the politics of exclusion and intolerance to have their hand on the tiller? Or will we (finally) prove we’re better than that? The next seven-plus months will answer those questions, but we have it within our power to make it clear that we won’t allow America to be governed by someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator.
We’re better than that…and it’s time we stood up against the bullying of Trump and his supporters. If not now, then when?
