Posted on 04/08/2016 5:11:59 PM PDT by mandaladon
About half a dozen times in the past few weeks I have been taken aside by a 20-something who’s looking for reassurance that the republic will not end. There has never been any campaign like this in the history of the nation, they say, and they know this is true because they’ve read it everywhere.
“We have officially hit a new low in political discourse,” declared Stephen Colbert (after Trump’s penis allusion on national television). Next, the Huffington Post warned, “Recent violence at Trump rallies marks a new low for American politics.” Not long after that, the Financial Times said: “Trump v Cruz hits new low as wives dragged into fray.”
A new low. A new low? Heavens no, I say, in my best wizened voice. Not even close. Rather than ending the republic, these folks would fit right in with the men who founded it. What’s distressing is not that this adolescent baiting and sniping is unheard of, but that it isn’t. We should have outgrown this by now.
To wit:
Name calling: Donald Trump, in particular, is so fond of calling people names that a running list of epithets being kept by the New York Times now includes more than 200 of his targets. Not a one of his zingers comes close to what leaders and would-be leaders spat at each other throughout history though, and not just because Trump uses far fewer syllables.
Jefferson’s supporters, for instance, described Adams as suffering from a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” Adams’ supporters in turn called Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
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That would be quite an accomplishment.
I’m glad to see the historical comparisons like this versus yet another “Trump = Hitler” article.
They ignore FDR’s internment of the Japanese, too, wholesale.
He's a man of accomplishment.
Yeah, he is trained for the job of CIC. He has lost more money than he has made. Will fit right in behind Obama
Marking for later
What kind of ditch-weed you be smokin' sagar? Cruz, were he to become the nominee, would be a Republican version of Mondale or McGovern in the General. And for the moment, not sure which ONE state he might win.
Go TRUMP! A TRUMP landslide is in the making!
I’m not even sure Cruz could win Texas now.
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