10-05-2016, 11:56 PM
Rachel Maddow tells us that Atlantic Monthly has endorsed Presidential candidates only three times since its establishment in 1857:
in 1860, Abraham Lincoln, for standing up to slave-owning interests
in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson, rejecting the reckless rhetoric of Barry Goldwater
in 2016 for Hillary Clinton due to the extreme inadequacy of Donald Trump
I would endorse the opponent of Donald Trump even if he were largely liberal, offering contradictory promises that could only work against each other except to bleed the Treasury, and if his foreign policy were to sell out American allies to a foreign Great Power (such was the rap on George McGovern). Here is someone who has made much of the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the USA long after such is close to ending as relevance.
Sorry folks -- I prefer the Reagan foreign policy to the McGovern policy. Donald Trump is far to the Left of the American mainstream of American foreign policy from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama.
I never thought that I would be defending Ronald Reagan in a Presidential election. I do now. Clinton/Kaine 2-16 may not be perfect, but Donald Trump is perfectly awful as a candidate.
in 1860, Abraham Lincoln, for standing up to slave-owning interests
in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson, rejecting the reckless rhetoric of Barry Goldwater
in 2016 for Hillary Clinton due to the extreme inadequacy of Donald Trump
I would endorse the opponent of Donald Trump even if he were largely liberal, offering contradictory promises that could only work against each other except to bleed the Treasury, and if his foreign policy were to sell out American allies to a foreign Great Power (such was the rap on George McGovern). Here is someone who has made much of the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the USA long after such is close to ending as relevance.
Sorry folks -- I prefer the Reagan foreign policy to the McGovern policy. Donald Trump is far to the Left of the American mainstream of American foreign policy from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama.
I never thought that I would be defending Ronald Reagan in a Presidential election. I do now. Clinton/Kaine 2-16 may not be perfect, but Donald Trump is perfectly awful as a candidate.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.