30-09-2016, 12:44 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:I actually liked Walinsky's article better:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2...ter-214270
It's hard to disagree with the criticisms he has of the Democratic abandonment of the Kennedy legacy. Eloquent, heartfelt and inescapable. But to go from that to supporting Trump?? I just don't get that leap of logic. There are plenty of examples which show Trump to be the playground bully; and America is about to give him the keys to the gun cabinet. Madness.
EDIT: I wrote the above before reading the original article about why RFK would have hated Trump. JFK believed, if I have understood the writings of Jim DiEugenio correctly, in the absolute right of all nations to co-exist peacefully and independently, without choosing sides and without interference from countries that "know better" like some colossal condescending parent. My impression of Trump is that he wants to withdraw from the UN, from the consensus of international diplomacy and enforce his own martial law. Trump is actually the antithesis of the line in JFK's American University speech. I suspect that Trump would like nothing better than a Pax Americana, enforced on the world by weapons of war.