{"id":30742,"date":"2018-07-04T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30742"},"modified":"2018-07-04T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:10:46","slug":"trump-ignites-a-new-era-of-nastiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30742","title":{"rendered":"Trump ignites a new era of nastiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump won’t leave a warm and fuzzy presidential legacy.<\/p>\n

I feel confident in saying so. He’ll leave office no doubt proclaiming all kinds of economic and foreign policy success.<\/p>\n

He won’t, though, be able to declare victory in his stated pledge to “unify” the country after the contentious and bitter campaign that elected him president of the United States.<\/p>\n

We are more divided than we’ve been in the past 50 years. More divided than Bush v. Gore and the Florida recount — and a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision — that decided the 2000 election; more than the impeachment in 1998 of President Clinton; more than the fight over the Affordable Care Act in 2010; more divided, even, than during the Vietnam War, when millions of Americans marched in protest against that conflict.<\/p>\n

Trump took office and declared at his inaugural that the “American carnage” would end “right here and right now.” It hasn’t.<\/p>\n

He has dragged public discourse into the gutter. He has ignited his Democratic Party foes to follow him there. Man, I regret that trend. We hear Democrats using Trump’s own words and behavior as justification for their attempts to out-shout the president and the Republicans.<\/p>\n

Trump’s declaration that the media are the “enemy of the American people” has energized his base, which is totally fine with him.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is not the president of the entire nation; he speaks only to his base and speaks only in language that his base understands. They comprise something around 38 percent of all Americans. That’s enough to suit the president.<\/p>\n

Does any of this portend a legacy that makes us proud?<\/p>\n

Nope. Not as far as I’m concerned. I’m pretty sure a lot of other Americans feel the same way.<\/p>\n\n

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