Most of us have been raised, and have raised our children to refrain from name-calling, vindictiveness, and other baser instincts that Trump would liberate in Americans. No other president has lied so, been so investigated, so impeached; none other has been so decried for his insults - like when he called countries on the African continent, "shit-hole nations," or when he call Omarosa, a black woman, and one of his top White House advisors, "a dog." Yet, he is as popular with much of this country - especially his infamous base - as he has ever been.
Trump's words, his actions, do not exist in a vacuum. The way he thumbs his nose at the law and social norms, and is then lionized, would weaken the fabric of any nation. How do parents in this country hold children to account when those same children watch their parents prostrate themselves before the Trump circus, and become accessories to his unprecedented boorishness?
This nation is fast becming irrelevant as a moral authority on the world stage because so many American adults have become irrelevant as moral authorities in their own households, which is where America gets its start.
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