Monday, October 19, 2020

The Overwhelming Evidence That Trump is Uniquely Unfit for Office

Presidents and candidates for president are criticized relentlessly every election.  Somehow political opinions cause people to personalize politics and actively dislike an opposing candidate.  But normally the reason for that dislike is the candidate’s positions on key policy issues.  The strength of our political system is that the effect of these passionate disagreements on policy is a swing of the pendulum a little bit from left to right and back, and the country compromises its way into the future.

But this is not a normal election.  Although the majority of Americans disagree with Donald Trump’s policy decisions (see the 2016 election results) and initiatives, that is not the primary reason to vote him out of office.  Here is the reason:  Trump is a deeply flawed human being and is a danger to our country and the rest of the world.

Never before have a president’s own cabinet members and closest advisors described him as incompetent, a danger to the country or unfit for office.  Never before have so many of the members of a president’s own party organized to oppose his reelection.  Never before has a president received outright condemnations (not disagreements!) from so many leading magazines, scientific organizations, journals and institutions.  Never before has a president caused such a precipitous drop in the USA’s reputation around the world and such alarm in our allies (https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/ )

Never before has a President cried out ‘lock them all up’ at his political rallies.  Never before has one encouraged his supporters to ‘liberate’ a state from its government.  Never before has a President lashed out so childishly at every critical remark or opponent.  Never before has a President bragged so pathetically about every minor aspect of his activities nor focused so completely on himself.

I have collected a selection (not exhaustive by any means) of the reasons I believe this is a unique situation and I have included links to reliable sources.  One may argue that Trump has many political and military allies, but I believe his allies are only supporting him because of his policies or because their own political fortunes are somehow tied to him.  They are taking a calculated risk (poetically described as a Faustian bargain) that his dangerous personal defects and behavior will not have catastrophic consequences.

The depth of the following indictments is breathtaking!

Former Trump Cabinet Members, Advisors and Close Associates 

  • John Bolton (Trump’s longest serving National Security Advisor) wrote a book that portrayed Trump as incompetent and a danger to the country.  He confirmed that Trump should have been convicted of impeachment.  Described him as “erratic,” “stunningly uninformed,” and “unfit for office,”
  • General Mattis, Trump’s Secretary of Defense: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
  • General Kelly former Chief of Staff for Trump - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-white-house-chief-of-staff-tells-friends-that-trump-is-the-most-flawed-person-hes-ever-met/ar-BB1a6NLk  
  • Rex Tillerson (Trump’s former Secretary of State) - called Trump “undisciplined” and  told CBS News’s Bob Schieffer“ that it was challenging  “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says what’s on his mind and tries to do illegal things.”
  • A group called the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform or REPAIR for short, made up of former U.S. officials, advisors, and conservatives and organized by ex-Trump administration officials,  is calling for leadership change in the White House and seeking to repair the Republican Party," https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/administration-officials-launch-anti-trump-group/story?id=72594615
  • Mary Trump (his niece and a clinical psychologist) who writes in her book that Trump paid someone to take his SAT’s (certainly not difficult to believe) and describes his multiple personality flaws – “cheating as a way of life, no principles, total narcissist”
  • Michael Cohen (personal attorney) – makes a multitude of claims about Trump’s obsessions, sexual habits, lack of principle, etc.  Cohen is a disreputable character and it is hard to know what is fact or fiction, but just the fact that such a man was Trump’s attorney and ‘fixer’ for so many years is horribly damning.

Science, Medicine and Health

Former Republicans and Conservatives

Senior Military Officers and National Security Officials (note: Trump has his list of military supporters, but they are supporting his conservative policies as military officers often do.  The military and security leaders below are convinced that Trump is a danger to our democracy and many of them have worked directly with Trump)

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