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Good article from the Jewish daily forward
what was missing from Trump’s speech last night was anything remotely uplifting and elevating, anything calling upon our better selves.
We have become accustomed to Trump’s unabashed refusal to recognize facts. (Because crime, actually, is down; the number of police officers murdered is lower than before Reagan’s time; our taxes are not the highest in the world, but the third lowest among 35 developed nations; Syrian refugees aren’t flooding our shores and actually have to go through a 21-step process to be allowed into the country, and so on. Oh, and it’s not World War III.) But that’s not what I found truly dangerous.
On display last night was a man who believes that he alone is the answer to everything.
“I am your voice.”
“No one knows the system better than me… and I alone can fix it.”
“I will restore law and order to our country.”
“I’m going to make our country rich again.”
“I am going to bring back jobs.”
“I am going to do it.”
The Jew in me has an ingrained wariness of purported leaders who intend to govern in the first person singular. From Pharaoh on down, such messianic impulses generally doesn’t turn out well for us.
Donald Trump’s Messianic Vision for America
what was missing from Trump’s speech last night was anything remotely uplifting and elevating, anything calling upon our better selves.
We have become accustomed to Trump’s unabashed refusal to recognize facts. (Because crime, actually, is down; the number of police officers murdered is lower than before Reagan’s time; our taxes are not the highest in the world, but the third lowest among 35 developed nations; Syrian refugees aren’t flooding our shores and actually have to go through a 21-step process to be allowed into the country, and so on. Oh, and it’s not World War III.) But that’s not what I found truly dangerous.
On display last night was a man who believes that he alone is the answer to everything.
“I am your voice.”
“No one knows the system better than me… and I alone can fix it.”
“I will restore law and order to our country.”
“I’m going to make our country rich again.”
“I am going to bring back jobs.”
“I am going to do it.”
The Jew in me has an ingrained wariness of purported leaders who intend to govern in the first person singular. From Pharaoh on down, such messianic impulses generally doesn’t turn out well for us.
Donald Trump’s Messianic Vision for America