Is there something "very wrong" with Donald Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee? Robert Kagan seems to think so. In an opinion article in The Washington Post ("There is something very wrong with Donald Trump"), the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for the Post wrote, "One wonders if Republican leaders have begun to realize that they may have hitched their fate and the fate of their party to a man with a disordered personality."
Kagan goes on to write, "You don’t take a crack at every single person who criticized you. And you especially don’t pick fights that you can’t possibly win, such as against a grieving Gold Star mother or a general. It’s simply not in your interest to do so."
He also writes that Trump "cannot control himself." That, in the Oval Office, can be an extremely dangerous scenario; say the wrong thing to the wrong world leader, and there's a good chance of WWIII. (Has anyone read Pat Frank's novel Alas, Babylon?) There are times when one simply does not get a "do-over", when "Oops, my bad" just won't cut it.
To read Robert Kagan's opinion piece in its entirety, click here.
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