b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 1 No, Not Trump, Not Ever
David Brooks
David Brooks MARCH 18, 2016
The voters have spoken.
In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump
as their nominee. And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it. Voters
are rarely wise but are usually sensible. They understand their own problems
. And so deference is generally paid to the candidate who wins.
And deference is being paid. Gov. Rick Scott of Florida is urging
Republicans to coalesce around Trump. Pundits are coming out with their “
What We Can Learn” commentaries. Those commentaries are built on a hidden
respect for the outcome, that this is a rejection of a Republicanism that
wasn’t working and it points in some better direction.
The question is: Should deference be paid to this victor? Should we bow down
to the judgment of these voters?
Well, some respect is in order. Trump voters are a coalition of the
dispossessed. They have suffered lost jobs, lost wages, lost dreams. The
American system is not working for them, so naturally they are looking for
something else.
Moreover, many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they
would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were
not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully
enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if
I’m going to report accurately on this country.
And yet reality is reality.
Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic
policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a
closed fortress. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s
uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once
occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would
undertake to buy a sofa.
Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our
lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady
obliviousness to accuracy.
This week, the Politico reporters Daniel Lippman, Darren Samuelsohn and
Isaac Arnsdorf fact-checked 4.6 hours of Trump speeches and press
conferences. They found more than five dozen untrue statements, or one every
five minutes.
“His remarks represent an extraordinary mix of inaccurate claims about
domestic and foreign policy and personal and professional boasts that rarely
measure up when checked against primary sources,” they wrote.
He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity. He is an
insecure boasting little boy whose desires were somehow arrested at age 12.
He surrounds himself with sycophants. “You can always tell when the king is
here,” Trump’s butler told Jason Horowitz in a recent Times profile. He
brags incessantly about his alleged prowess, like how far he can hit a golf
ball. “Do I hit it long? Is Trump strong?” he asks.
In some rare cases, political victors do not deserve our respect. George
Wallace won elections, but to endorse those outcomes would be a moral
failure.
And so it is with Trump.
History is a long record of men like him temporarily rising, stretching back
to biblical times. Psalm 73 describes them: “Therefore pride is their
necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. … They scoff, and speak
with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim
to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth. Therefore their
people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.”
And yet their success is fragile: “Surely you place them on slippery ground
; you cast them down to ruin. How suddenly they are destroyed.”
The psalmist reminds us that the proper thing to do in the face of demagogy
is to go the other way — to make an extra effort to put on decency,
graciousness, patience and humility, to seek a purity of heart that is
stable and everlasting.
The Republicans who coalesce around Trump are making a political error. They
are selling their integrity for a candidate who will probably lose. About
60 percent of Americans disapprove of him, and that number has been steady
since he began his campaign.
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Worse, there are certain standards more important than one year’s election.
There are certain codes that if you betray them, you suffer something much
worse than a political defeat.
Donald Trump is an affront to basic standards of honesty, virtue and
citizenship. He pollutes the atmosphere in which our children are raised. He
has already shredded the unspoken rules of political civility that make
conversation possible. In his savage regime, public life is just a dog-eat-
dog war of all against all.
As the founders would have understood, he is a threat to the long and
glorious experiment of American self-government. He is precisely the kind of
scapegoating, promise-making, fear-driving and deceiving demagogue they
feared.
Trump’s supporters deserve respect. They are left out of this economy. But
Trump himself? No, not Trump, not ever. | a********r
发帖数: 4013 | 2 左逼造谣真是张口就来呀，通篇把Trump名字换成左逼都毫无违和感 | p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 3 还真是。
可以把通篇 trump 名字换成 Clinton, 还比较符合事实。
【在 a********r 的大作中提到】
: 左逼造谣真是张口就来呀，通篇把Trump名字换成左逼都毫无违和感
| s*******1
发帖数: 16479 | | p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 5 犹太人叫 david 特别多。
大概 90%以上 david 是不是都是犹太人?
在生活中认识一个犹太人叫 david，也是，左得一塌糊涂。
【在 s*******1 的大作中提到】
: 为纽时写稿的犹太人……
: 真急疯了
| s*******1
发帖数: 16479 | 6 The surname Brooks is also found among English-speaking Ashkenazi Jews,
deriving from the male Hebrew given name Boruch, meaning "blessed".
【在 p*****n 的大作中提到】
: 犹太人叫 david 特别多。
: 大概 90%以上 david 是不是都是犹太人?
: 在生活中认识一个犹太人叫 david，也是，左得一塌糊涂。
| p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 7 嗯，可能也和大卫王有关。
【在 s*******1 的大作中提到】
: The surname Brooks is also found among English-speaking Ashkenazi Jews,
: deriving from the male Hebrew given name Boruch, meaning "blessed".
| s*******1
发帖数: 16479 | 8 很有可能。我公司owner之一是犹太人，也叫大卫
我想改名叫King 大胃的
【在 p*****n 的大作中提到】
: 嗯，可能也和大卫王有关。
| p*****n
发帖数: 3678 | 9 嗯，我的大卫朋友知道我支持共和党，还表现的非常气愤和失望。不过我丝毫不 care
。哈哈。
【在 s*******1 的大作中提到】
: 很有可能。我公司owner之一是犹太人，也叫大卫
: 我想改名叫King 大胃的
| L****n
发帖数: 12932 | 10 LOL. I'm 1% and a fierce trump supporter. 给你个大耳光。
Trump’s supporters deserve respect. They are left out of this economy. But
Trump himself? No, not Trump, not ever.
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: No, Not Trump, Not Ever
: David Brooks
: David Brooks MARCH 18, 2016
: The voters have spoken.
: In convincing fashion, Republican voters seem to be selecting Donald Trump
: as their nominee. And in a democracy, victory has legitimacy to it. Voters
: are rarely wise but are usually sensible. They understand their own problems
: . And so deference is generally paid to the candidate who wins.
: And deference is being paid. Gov. Rick Scott of Florida is urging
: Republicans to coalesce around Trump. Pundits are coming out with their “
| d*******p
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