In this well intentioned appeal
or overture to the soul of Americans the writer states; ‘...This is not complicated! Just nominate a
decent, ‘sane’ person...’ the inference here being that Trump is insane. This
is not the kind of assumption that heals America when half the US population
believe Trump is eminently sane. Alarmist Mayday signalling on the possibility
of a Trump election is conjectured as, ‘It will be an overthrow of all the
norms, values, rules and institutions that we cherish.’ It is the presumption in
‘we’ that is troubling here and the class entitlement encoded therein. Although
this well written article was no doubt intended to energise and bring balm to
the American soul, it is hardly a poultice and its a priori type assumptions will do little to bring healing to the other half of current American political
division.
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