Every so often someone writes something about Donald Trump that is so perfect that it goes viral, and then keeps turning up periodically over the years as new people come across it and have to share it. This just came my way and I have no idea if it’s old or new, but I have to share it.
“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle.
“Violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work. Grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace.
“Treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy.
“That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry.
“Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him.
“He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame.
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