Dear Commons Community,

This is my absolute last post on Donald Trump.  Actually I promised this to myself a couple of days ago but Charles M. Blow’s column today makes a point that is just too important and  needs to be shared as much as possible

Mr. Blow, reflecting on Trump’s candidacy and its popularity among  some members of the right, comments that it doesn’t reflect American  ideology as much as it exposes the flaws within it.   To quote:

“It further exacerbates a corrosive culture on the right that now celebrates the Cult of Idiocy — from Glenn Beck to Michele Bachmann — where riling liberals is more valuable than reason and logic, and where intellectualism and even basic learnedness is viewed with suspicion and contempt.

It further advances the campaign of the rich and powerful in America to exploit the fears of those who feel most fragile in an effort to increase or insulate their fortunes.

It further enshrines the destructive pop culture dogma that fame and fortune grant moral wiggle room to flout the rules and obscure the truth.

And, yes, it further plays to the heavy racial undertones that have marked this presidency. (This was underscored in the ugliest of ways last week when Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist, sent an e-mail containing an Obama ‘family portrait,’ portraying them as apes under the phrase, ‘Now you know why no birth certificate’.”

Thank you, Mr. Blow!

Tony