Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Trump in Helsinki

Donald Trump’s performance at the Helsinki summit press conference is the lowest of all of his low points. He made it clear to the world that he is arrogant, unprepared, easily manipulated, undiplomatic, can’t see a world beyond himself and will sell his country short.

To this date, for all the criticism he and his cronies have gotten, for all the jokes he has been the butt of, for the misjudgments he has made, the Republicans cowered behind him and many followers have continued to follow him.


So what can we do? We all know a Trump supporter among our friends, family, colleagues. My belief is that we give up partisan and divisive arguments, and each approach one Trump supporter by listening, being patient and persisting with calm arguments that consistently show how everybody’s America, and its institutions, are being weakened and degraded. I’m working on one such family member myself.

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