Trump as the Ever-Present Mid-Term Election Elephant in the Room
As with Biden, so it is with Trump, my assessment is based on the available record, which I integrate within my understanding of contemporary history, political culture, public ethics, and my capacity to make reasonable, evidence-based inferences. With Biden, I see a flawed individual with a generous heart, who can make very consequential errors in judgment. His core values resonate around an inviolable loyalty to family, public and community service, a foundational belief in patriotism, and a desire for public concord broadly along the lines of his core political beliefs rooted in the values of the New Deal and Great Society. As an avowed liberal, I find much to admire, despite his sometimes-substantial flaws. I search long and hard to discern any positive values embedded in Trump’s public persona. The fundamental problem is rooted in his deep-rooted narcissism, which underlies his need for adulation and his rage against personal or public slights which clouds any capacity to gove