Following Paul Ryan’s tepid endorsement, it didn’t take long for Donald Trump to have Ryan wishing he hadn’t. Trump continues to do his worst to divide us along Anglo/Hispanic lines and the latest was his attack on Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the presiding judge over the Trump University debacle. Trump said Judge Curiel has “conflicts of interest” which render him incapable of judicial objectivity and he wants him off the case: “He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico."
Trump’s bombast in service of his churlishness is an uncapped fire hydrant. Maybe the best reason not to vote for him is careful consideration of what the world would look like with this blowhard jumping into the steaming cauldron of Ki Jinping, Duterte, Kim Jong-un, Khamenei, ISIS, Netanyahu, and Putin—four of them with nuclear triggers and two others close.
Which brings me to the woman who includes you and me in her imperial “we." First Lady Michelle Obama claims to speak for all of us when she says Donald Trump “is not who we are." "We don’t build up walls to keep people out.” Mrs. Obama continues, "I have seen how leaders [who] dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer.” She concludes, "that is not who we are. ...no we’re all in this together. We always have been.”
What Mrs. Obama hides and members of the press are too bathed in the bloodshed of their own children to reveal is that...