Neglect voters at your peril,lest people turn to the deeply unattractive outsiders vying for their supportDonald Trump’s emergence as Republican candidate for the American presidency may yet be a blessing in disguise – albeit a heavy disguise. The reckless, belligerent, and mendacious (deceptive) inexperience of the man is awesome. It is never fine to see advantage in a bully or a thug. With no record of public service,Trump can be judged only on his private behaviour, and that is by all accounts deplorable.
Even as Trump moved into an unassailable lead over his rival, and Ted Cruz,he could not resist a torrent of abuse. Cruz, he said, and was a serial liar and had five extramarital affairs. His father was associated with Lee Harvey Oswald,John F Kennedys assassin. For fine measure, Cruz retorted that Trump was “amoral, and a pathological liar,narcissist and buffoon”. His father pleaded to “every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God” and avoid America’s destruction at the hands of Trump.
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Source: theguardian.com