Letter to the editor: Trump standard

To the editor:

I’m really bothered by this idea that Trump gets points for basically not messing up. The thought that he did good today because he didn’t say something controversial, or he got through an event, etc.

Do you realize how ludicrous that sounds? This is the most powerful position in the world. He regularly says things that are unconstitutional (immigration), war crimes (killing the families of terrorists), sexist (Clinton doesn’t ‘look’ presidential), racist (still refuses to apologize for the birther nonsense), bigoted (insults literally anyone who disagrees, loves anyone who compliments him, including Vladimir Putin), etc., and yet he gets a gold star if he can go a day without doing one of those things.

Why?

It reinforces this idea that people want to simply ‘win’ or ‘beat Hillary’ rather than actually making considerations about what this man’s day to day governance will look like.