Trump has no shame
In 1960, a prima facie case had been made that fraud had taken place which tilted several states into the column of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The loser in that race, Richard M. Nixon, chose to be a statesman and a patriot rather than a rabble-rouser, declining to challenge any of the results nor to call for recounts, citing the desire to avoid a constitutional crisis.
Today, the cartoon character and charlatan who seeks the Republican nomination, apparently smelling a loss, is already asserting that the election is rigged and is paving the way for millions to refuse to accept Hillary Clinton as their leader and to engage in civil unrest. His contention is as nonsensical as everything else that emerges from his “creative” mind, in which facts are written off as opinion and black is white.
Richard Nixon would ultimately go down to disgrace and to be seen as the “crook” that he assured us he was not. In 1960, however, he reflected a desire to hold the country together, to avoid a protracted period of instability as the world watched. Donald Trump cares only about himself and his “greatness,” the epitome of the ugly American.
One of the targets of attack by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy saw a Communist beneath every rock. Within a U. S. Senate hearing in 1954, one of the targets of his witch-hunt famously said, “Until this moment…I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” The question is being asked of pretender to the throne Donald Trump and the answer is obvious.
Oren M. Spiegler is a resident of Upper Saint Clair.