{UAH} The Trump Presidency Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/?utm_term=2020-03-13T14%3A59%3A10&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR2R3H57AOZMYn9Z-Y6LBZwm0YU5mCJAlFUN2t_9p7hKQ31dsOCjEjmA6M8&fbclid=IwAR0zQrscvu-PI3YDAeF7zob7eCN_CCUsUlgz16I3oTpSXqNdl1FtaK3rCnM

When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?

What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfit—intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically—for office. For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it's reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis—and at that point, the president's judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.

David Frum: The worst outcome

"Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them" is how I put it four years ago. "No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness." I added this:

Mr. Trump's virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.

It took until the second half of Trump's first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it's hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed by a crisis as the coronavirus has overwhelmed Donald Trump.

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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)

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