From the time he trashed John McCain to his recent slobberings on behalf of Russian President Putin, GOP nominee for president Donald J. Trump has demonstrated his complete incoherence as a politician at any level, much less the highest — not to mention his questionable-at-best loyalty to the land he wants to serve as our next president.
We ever-so-smart, ever-so-wise and ever-so-sophisticated political know-it-alls here in Massachusetts should’ve seen the ascent of Trump.
Remember the political hack who proudly proclaimed in 1978 how the late Edward J. King’s primary campaign succeeded in knocking then incumbent governor Michael Dukakis out of the November showdown with Frank Hatch? “We got all the crazies together.”
Ed King, who ran Massport, was no slouch upstairs. Unfortunately, for King at least, he was unable to shake the hack’s wiseguy boast. Now just look at today’s “crazies,” or people not entirely up to date with at least some minimal amount of political homework to speak for.
Today, how else can we explain why Trump made a comeback in early September despite all he’s done to practically disrobe himself so we can all see what his real brand is for all time: “Putin’s Siberian Candidate”?
Lincoln spoke eloquently about government of the people, by the people and for the people. The people he referred to were of sound mind whom he trusted would be best suited to give all the people, regardless of status or mental capacities, the best government they deserved.
Lincoln’s people weren’t “crazies ” He was sophisticated and wise enough to know “crazies” were too unreliable to call on. With Trump’s running mate Mike Pence echoing the former on Putin, the “crazies” fully control the GOP.
Steven Barrett
Hadley