As presidential opponents Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump head into a defining debage Tuesday, numbers of Republicans increasingly confirm that they will not vote for thier candidate and will, instead, cast their ballot for a Democrat and tne media says Trump is both “dangerous” and “unfit to lead ” the nation.
“A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great, declares the editorial board of The New York Times.
It is a chilling choice against this national moment. For more than two decades, large majorities of Americans have said they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, and the post-Covid era of stubborn inflation, high interest rates, social division and political stagnation has left many voters even more frustrated and despondent.
The Republican Party once pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems, to building “the shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan liked to say. Its vision of the United States — embodied in principled public servants like George H.W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — was rooted in the values of freedom, sacrifice, individual responsibility and the common good. The party’s conception of those values was reflected in its longstanding conservative policy agenda, and today many Republicans set aside their concerns about Mr. Trump because of his positions on immigration, trade and taxes. But the stakes of this election are not fundamentally about policy disagreements. The stakes are more foundational: what qualities matter most in America’s president and commander in chief.
Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people. Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him.
He is, quite simply, unfit to lead.
As a career newspaperman, I have covered Presidential elections since 1964, when Lyndon Baines defeated hardcore conservative Barry Goldwater with a massive win, then stepped down from his re-election bid in 1968 amid the Vietnam war and Richard Nixon took the win, only to resign in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal.
Presidential races bring scandals and controversies, but none approach the upset win of the fraud and con artist Trump in 2016. Americans got their act together in 2020 to send Trump packing and replace him with Joe Biden, who stepped down this year amid questiions aobut his age and opened the door for Harris, who could, and shoud, be the first female leader of this nation.
Trump’s foru years in office has destroyed the Republicans, once called “the party of Abraham Lincoln,” and has serously damaged the democracy that has existrd as the longest democratic republic in the word.
But what is left of the party os now is run by hardcore extremists, racists and anarchists who deploy fascism and White Supremacy as their desire for the nation — a desire that must be stopped.
The Times adds:
This debate is so intense because of legitimate concerns that Mr. Trump may present a danger to the country, its strength, security and national character — and that a compelling Democratic alternative is the only thing that would prevent his return to power. It is a national tragedy that the Republicans have failed to have a similar debate about the manifest moral and temperamental unfitness of their standard-bearer, instead setting aside their longstanding values, closing ranks and choosing to overlook what those who worked most closely with the former president have described as his systematic dishonesty, corruption, cruelty and incompetence.
That task now falls to the American people. We urge voters to see the dangers of a second Trump term clearly and to reject it. The stakes and significance of the presidency demand a person who has essential qualities and values to earn our trust, and on each one, Donald Trump fails.
Let’s face it: Donald John Trump is a traitor. He is a domestic terrorist who represents the greatest threat ever to the existence and future of a this nation. He is a racist and fraud, a convicted felon, a court-certified sexual predator, adjudicated rapist, serial liar and narcissistic psychopath who looted the U.S. treasury. bankrupted casinos and left small businesses who worked on his failed projected bankrupt.
Voters can, and should, save America by dumping Trump and leave him to the American justice system to see that he dies in prison homeless, decimated and bankrupt.
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