The example of Enoch Powell's approach to India shows how painful intellectual honesty can be and we have sometimes neglected it looking at Donald Trump
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “endorse”, and I don’t have a vote, but in a Biden/Trump contest, yes, of course, Biden is the less bad option. Still dreadfully inadequate but the lesser of two weevils, as Jack Aubrey would say.
The Trump affair is a weird one isn't it? All reporting, if honest, shows him to be a thoroughly hideous individual and yet millions will still vote for him knowing that. I'm a bit worried about Americans who do vote for him. The future is a worry.
There’s an alarming divide between people who don’t believe accusations against him (proven or not) and people who just don’t care, and like his style and/or the people he annoys. This latter group is the scarier.
Eliot, given what you say about Trump, intellectual honesty should lead you to the logical next step of endorsing the only candidate capable of beating Trump, Joe Biden.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “endorse”, and I don’t have a vote, but in a Biden/Trump contest, yes, of course, Biden is the less bad option. Still dreadfully inadequate but the lesser of two weevils, as Jack Aubrey would say.
The Trump affair is a weird one isn't it? All reporting, if honest, shows him to be a thoroughly hideous individual and yet millions will still vote for him knowing that. I'm a bit worried about Americans who do vote for him. The future is a worry.
There’s an alarming divide between people who don’t believe accusations against him (proven or not) and people who just don’t care, and like his style and/or the people he annoys. This latter group is the scarier.
Eliot, given what you say about Trump, intellectual honesty should lead you to the logical next step of endorsing the only candidate capable of beating Trump, Joe Biden.