I am no admirer of Mr. Trump, but Friedman manages to reverse the fundamental character of these two candidates.
Trump is not “an indecent human being.” While his personal life is colorful to say the least, his personal mistakes and misjudgements splashed over the tabloids, he seems to have settled down, and projects a flawed, if basically decent human character.
There are no backdoor/tabloid stories from masses of disgruntled employees about what a horrible boss he was, rather, most of his employees seem to like working for him. He has raised talented kids who seem to earn their keep. He is a braggart, occasionally crude, occasionally full of himself, and has made some scurrilous charges against opponents.
He also seems to understand that the national political process has been corrupted and detached from the general population, and pursues power to fix what he sees as broken.
Mrs. Clinton, is fundamentally “indecent” and her flaws go way beyond “...a weakness for secrecy, occasionally fudges truths, has fawning aides and a husband who lacks discipline when it comes to moneymaking and women.”
Mrs. Clinton’s agenda is first and foremost about the pursuit of both money and power for personal and family benefit. She has no political center, aside from the utility of government largess as a tool to gain money and power. She has latched onto collectivist ideology not from conviction, but from recognition that it empowers government and provides her tools she can use to reward allies and punish enemies.
She is a remarkable combination of arrogance and ignorance. With a faith in her own abilities that is not justified when you look at her record. She habitually blames others for her failures, and treats employees and advisers as servants, dismissing as irrelevant anyone who cannot benefit her directly.
As President, she would enact policies that would cripple our economy, undermine our liberties, and empower her to use government as a club against anyone who opposes her.
Choosing Trump over her is quite possibly the easiest electoral choice I have made since 1984.
I’m an admirer of Mr. Trump. I get a little tired of freepers who do this virtue-signaling stuff such as “While I feel Trump is a bombastic, vulgar pig who loathes women, he’s still a better choice than Hillary Clinton...” Then why bother voting for him?