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Teflon Don beats the Hildebeast
Stonewaller, shape-shifter, liar. I wrote this week about how an all-but-certain presidential nominee embodied these characteristics, prompting comments observing, with varying degrees of snarkiness, that they had assumed I was referring to Hillary Clinton.
My target was Donald Trump, but these readers raise a reasonable and important question: Can’t the same criticism I heaped on the presumptive Republican nominee be applied to the Democratic front-runner? To all politicians, for that matter?
Am I just wailing on Trump and going soft on Clinton because I disagree with Trump’s positions?
’d make two countervailing points. First, I have been a tough critic of Clinton.
Second, Trump is different — in degree more than in kind, but in his case the difference of degree is a yawning chasm.
All politicians deflect unwanted questions and demands for information (stonewaller).
All evolve, if not outright flip-flop (shape-shifter).
All, at times, say things that turn out to be untrue (liar).
What puts Trump in a different league is his outright unwillingness to abide by the customary norms of disclosure (releasing tax returns); his reversals on issues within the course of a single interview, no less a single campaign; and his determined refusal ever to acknowledge error even when confronted with irrefutable facts to the contrary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-lying-trump-is-in-a-class-by-himself/2016/05/20/e7668d42-1e9a-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_draw2
Stonewaller, shape-shifter, liar. I wrote this week about how an all-but-certain presidential nominee embodied these characteristics, prompting comments observing, with varying degrees of snarkiness, that they had assumed I was referring to Hillary Clinton.
My target was Donald Trump, but these readers raise a reasonable and important question: Can’t the same criticism I heaped on the presumptive Republican nominee be applied to the Democratic front-runner? To all politicians, for that matter?
Am I just wailing on Trump and going soft on Clinton because I disagree with Trump’s positions?
’d make two countervailing points. First, I have been a tough critic of Clinton.
Second, Trump is different — in degree more than in kind, but in his case the difference of degree is a yawning chasm.
All politicians deflect unwanted questions and demands for information (stonewaller).
All evolve, if not outright flip-flop (shape-shifter).
All, at times, say things that turn out to be untrue (liar).
What puts Trump in a different league is his outright unwillingness to abide by the customary norms of disclosure (releasing tax returns); his reversals on issues within the course of a single interview, no less a single campaign; and his determined refusal ever to acknowledge error even when confronted with irrefutable facts to the contrary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-lying-trump-is-in-a-class-by-himself/2016/05/20/e7668d42-1e9a-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_draw2