Martin Luther King, Jr., prejudice, and Frank Bruni

My response to Frank Bruni’s “An Abominations. A Monster. That’s Me”.http://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/opinion/sunday/villifying-white-men.html?comments#permid=25166570

Martin Luther King, Jr. must be spinning in his grave:

"When we are judged not by the color of our skin but the content of our character."

The Emperor’s speech had no close

"Trump remained a singular man on a singular mission — a legend in his own mind."
- Frank Bruni responding to Trump's inaugural speech, New York Times, 2017-01-21, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/opinion/sunday/the-president-who-buried-humility.html.

Many of the reader comments are worth reading.

Politics as game show

Maybe our problem is that the "debates" are not real debates like Lincoln-Douglas but game shows. And Trump understands this, but serious politicians don't.

My comment to Frank Bruni's "Trump's Ideology of Applause".

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-ideology-of-applause.html?comments&_r=0#permid=19756890