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A Word from the Wise One in Our Family, Or, Why I’m Going to Take My Time with This
During our end-of-the-day chat yesterday evening, I mentioned to my wife that I’d been in a quiet lather all day — as had many of us here at Ricochet. I’d put up a couple of posts, I explained, quoting people who made the argument that for all his terrible faults Donald Trump would represent a lesser evil than Hillary, and then
a) In comments on the posts, opinion here on the site split between those who agreed and those who quite forcefully insisted instead on having nothing to do with Trump, and,
b) The idea of supporting Trump, even extremely reluctantly, had sat badly with me. Even in my own mind, that is, I remained uneasy and divided.
Her response? “Give it some time. Nobody has to make up his mind in one day.”
As usual, she’s right. My position right now? That figuring out what to do in the present situation represents a very hard problem–hard both politically (we’re going to have to live with the results of this election for at least four years) and morally (each of us is also going to have to live with himself). For the time being, all I know for certain is–well, let me simply quote my friend Robby George: “The nation faces a choice between two appalling people, neither of whom is fit—morally or otherwise—to be President of the United States. God help us.”
Published in General
Curiously, there is a picture of his ex-wife, Marla Maples, in a bikini under the taco bowl, on the right side of the photo. What that means, I don’t know. He sure is odd.