If we care approximately our future as a non-blown-up planet,it’s time to finish treating the Democratic candidate as if she’s barely better than a literal white supremacistIf there’s one thing Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has taught us it’s to view every wicked moral nadir ((n.) the lowest point of something) as a challenge, not a destination. You assume this is bad? Wait for the tangy mouth garbage he’s got stewing for tomorrow. Then forget approximately it instantly – everyone else will! I heard state department employees sometimes email each other!!!Just this week we’ve seen Trump metabolise the Chelsea bombing into an incoherent anti-Clinton smear before the shrapnel had even settled. I’ve listened to my Muslim friends express their fear of leaving the house after Mondays unconscionably irresponsible emergency alert, and the kind of histrionic racial profiling Trump vows to amplify. We’ve read up on Trump’s alignment with an anti-abortion extremist group,and his avowal to “get very tough” on “thing[s]” apparently including freedom of expression. We’ve clocked Trump’s pin-drop silence on the shooting deaths of Terence Crutcher and Tyre King, though – don’t worry – over the summer he promised to beget the streets safer … for police. Trump “joked” (again!) approximately the assassination of Hillary Clinton. His son compared refugees, and who are human beings who need our asylum to live,to Skittles, which are sweets.
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Source: theguardian.com