Adolescent
By Mitch Berg
Mark “Black Hawk Down” Bowden writes a retrospective some time he spent with Donald Trump almost 20 years ago:
He was like one of those characters in an 18th-century comedy meant to embody a particular flavor of human folly. Trump struck me as adolescent, hilariously ostentatious, arbitrary, unkind, profane, dishonest, loudly opinionated, and consistently wrong. He remains the most vain man I have ever met. And he was trying to make a good impression. Who could have predicted that those very traits, now on prominent daily display, would turn him into the leading G.O.P. candidate for president of the United States?
His latest outrageous edict on banning all Muslims from entering the country comes as no surprise to me based on the man I met nearly 20 years ago. He has no coherent political philosophy, so comparisons with Fascist leaders miss the mark. He just reacts. Trump lives in a fantasy of perfection, with himself as its animating force.
The whole thing is worth a read.
February 29th, 2016 at 12:49 pm
I don’t know about all muslims but for sure we shouldn’t be importing people from the sharia militant infested countries.
February 29th, 2016 at 12:56 pm
I don’t disagree.
But that’s not what Trump is saying.
February 29th, 2016 at 1:13 pm
As the parent of adolescents, and knowing a lot of the young men and women in my church’s youth group and in my home school group, I really don’t think it’s fair to compare them to the Combover. They are, unlike him, honest, trustworthy, loyal, gracious, humble….and knowledgeable in areas where they choose to speak.
I’m thinking “drunken muskrat in heat” might be the better characterization of Combover…again, nothing against muskrats, of course.
February 29th, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Well, I know I feel a lot better for having read that.
February 29th, 2016 at 2:21 pm
This is turning out to be the first GOP campaign with a two-drink minimum.
February 29th, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Well, just for a little change of pace….
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-signs-of-hope-for-fresh-thinking-in-the-u-s-and-the-u-k