On a soap opera set in 2005, unaware that there was
a hot mike nearby and that his remarks were being taped, GOP presidential
nominee Donald Trump bragged that he could ‘kiss and grope’ women because he
was a star, and ‘when you’re a star, they let you do anything.’ Immediately,
his minions and apologists have jumped to his defense. His former campaign
manager, in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer on October 7, tried to downplay
this by saying he’d rather have a president who was ‘gross’ than one who was ‘dishonest,’
conveniently omitting the number of times Trump’s lies have been exposed, often
in his own words.
The question that comes to mind for me is, if Trump
feels that being a star makes it possible for him to get away with ‘anything,’
what will he think being president would entitle him to? This is a guy that a
majority of respondents to a Newsmax poll recently said they’d let babysit
their children. What that tells me is that hardcore Trump supporters and
hardcore Clinton haters will forgive this guy just about anything, and the
country be damned. Maybe Trump was right, he could kill someone on the streets
of Manhattan and no one (among those who support him like well-trained house
pets) would dislike him.
What’s really frightening is that while I’m sure
there are some decent people left in the GOP, I’m still waiting for one of them
to step up and condemn him for his remarks, for his behavior. They will no
doubt gasp in dismay in private, but in public – silence. In the meantime,
those angry people who support him because he is so gross and disgusting will
continue to cheer.
We’re no longer in an age of dirty politics. Thanks
to Donald Trump, we’ve sunk even lower.
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