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If Trump is the Republican Nominee, Hillary Clinton won’t have to Lift a Finger.

The Republican party will do it all for her.

In response to Trump’s many promises that he will commit war crimes and force American military personnel to commit them too, one of the Washington Post’s most conservative columnists today writes:

[H]is most important and devastating utterance [in the debate] has left little doubt about his contempt for democracy and the moral necessity to defeat him either before or after he gets the GOP presidential nomination… For all of his professed concern and respect for the military Trump considers them to be errand boys, like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. A commander in chief who truly respects the troops and looks out for them does not order them to commit war crimes, setting off a constitutional crisis and subjecting American service personnel to court marshal and criminal prosecution. His attitude — I say it, so they will follow — is the thinking of a thug, a proto-fascist and a narcissistic personality.

Jennifer Rubin has just updated her column with Trump’s latest effort to clear his mind.

Trump, apparently told that what he was saying was outrageous and illegal, now tells the Wall Street Journal that what he said at the debate is not his position. And this man wants to be commander and chief of our armed forces?! It’s hard to know if he is evil, ignorant or both.

Margaret Soltan, March 4, 2016 2:45PM
Posted in: democracy

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One Response to “If Trump is the Republican Nominee, Hillary Clinton won’t have to Lift a Finger.”

  1. Alan Allport Says:

    I don’t think “contempt for democracy” is quite right. Trump is a product of democracy, of a certain kind anyway, and he passionately embraces it. It’s classical Enlightenment values that he’s contemptuous of.

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