What on earth is the point of civility with Trump? Have other recent presidents lied? Of course! With disastrous consequences? Yes. (Trump has yet to quite equal "Iraq has WMDs" for sheer destructive force, but it's early days.) There is something that is obviously more brazen about Trump, less Machiavellian than a profoundly intellectually uncurious septuagenarian man-baby who can't piss right anymore and who's angry and forgetful and has virtually no impulse control. Clinton would have started wars, had she won. Of course she would have. She would have been unlikely to come up with the justification on the fly, change it the next day, and petulantly insist that she never said anything like the first judgment. Sure, you're still at war (or whatever), but minus the level of clownish, overtly malicious incompetence Trump brings to the table.
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