Apparently Robert Kagan isn't the only opinion writer with The Washington Post who is wondering whether Donald Trump is fit to be president.
Eugene Robinson, opinion writer for The Post, wrote in his column ("Is Donald Trump just plain crazy?"), "During the primary season, as Donald Trump’s bizarre outbursts helped him crush the competition, I thought he was being crazy like a fox. Now I am increasingly convinced that he’s just plain crazy."
Robinson goes on to write that Trump "lies the way other people breathe. Telling a self-serving life...seems to be a reflex for him." Robinson then goes on to offer instances where the blatant lies even contradict when Trump has already said in the past.
Robinson goes on to write that Trump is "alarmingly thin-skinned," as well as "the worst kind of bully," having belittled Ghaza Khan, wife of Khizer Kahn and mother of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq.
To read Eugene Robinson's opinion piece in its entirety, click here.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Is There Something Wrong With Trump? Robert Kagan Says 'Yes'
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.
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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