(Trump’s) efforts — as bad as they might be — have been so
far confined to the margins. Trump has not passed any major legislation or, for
that matter, built any walls.
On the other hand, his most significant and appalling
contribution has been to normalize lying as an ordinary tool of the presidency.
He has ghettoized truth, confining it to something characterized as the lying
and disloyal mainstream media. He lies for purpose and he lies just for the
hell of it. His lying is such that it ought to be a mental ailment. Call him
politically insane.
And sure that looks bad along with too many other things to mention.
His views, especially regarding social and cultural issues,
are to the right of the right. He is famously antiabortion, recommends
abstinence as the entire key to sex education and has taken the unique view that condoms are useless in AIDS
prevention. As for global warming, back in 2000 he said it “is a myth.”
In 2002, Pence took to the floor of the House to declaim on
evolution. Like many of its opponents, he misused the term “theory,” making it
seem like a guess or a speculation. In science, a theory is an explanation of
how things work. This is quite different from what Pence cited as a comparison — “that God created man
in his own image.” That’s religion and not a theory — and that’s a fact.
And Cohen goes on to point out what a vile hypocrite Pence is for overlooking all the things that make Trump the most nihilistic bastard ever to walk the Earth.
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