USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
A detailed and devastating attack on Trump for reasons good, bad, and ugly.
But . . . .
Nor does this editorial represent unqualified support for Hillary Clinton, who has her own flaws (though hers are far less likely to threaten national security or lead to a constitutional crisis).
The Editorial Board does not have a consensus for a Clinton endorsement.
Some of us look at her command of the issues, resilience and long record of public service — as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State — and believe she’d serve the nation ably as its president.
Other board members have serious reservations about Clinton’s sense of entitlement, her lack of candor and her extreme carelessness in handling classified information.
Where does that leave us?
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Whatever you do . . . resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue.
By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump.
Dorothy Rabinowitz in WSJ both denounces Trump and endorses Hillary, after slamming the Never Hillary types who, on the USA Today board, cannot quite swallow the best available medicine.
Hillary-Hatred Derangement Syndrome
Mrs. Clinton hasn’t failed to provide, on her own, cause for concern about her own proclivities and never more intolerably than in that debate Monday when she chose to ramble on, familiarly, about institutional racism, which invariably emerges in her responses on conflagration involving police action.
Americans have a right to cringe at this reflexive, factually distorted, and inflammatory sermonizing.
The accompanying, deep felt tribute to the police and their heroism, invariably added, can never offset the insidiousness of these messages.
Even so, such proclivities pale next to the occasion for cringing that would come with a Trump presidency.
No one witnessing Mr. Trump’s primary race—his accumulation of Alt-Right cheerleaders, white supremacists and swastika devotees—could fail to notice the menacing tone and the bitterness that came with it.
Not for nothing did the Democrats bring off a triumph of a convention, alive with cheer, not to mention its two visitors whose story would lift countless American hearts.
They were, of course, the Muslim couple Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son, Capt. Humayun Khan—brought here as a child—died in Iraq in 2004, saving his men from an explosive-rigged car.
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It will be either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton—experienced, forward-looking, indomitably determined and eminently sane.
Her election alone is what stands between the American nation and the reign of the most unstable, proudly uninformed, psychologically unfit president ever to enter the White House.
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