Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
It never was. Trump’s campaign and his presidency are not a political issue for America, they are a crisis of our national conscienceness, and a test of our moral fiber.
Democracy requires that we debate policies, ideas, and the means of advancing ourselves. Inherent in that is a shared assumption that we are indeed advancing ourselves through that competition of ideas.
Trump debases this. He forces us to confront an ugliness that is a threat to our very system of government. Trump undermines the presidency and democracy itself by mocking the process that produces ideas and compromises, and instead uses lies and obfusication to sate greedy urges at our expense.
