What I hate about Trump

One chapter you will agree with – from the e-book "Call Me Toxic – I get Trump" on Amazon

But first, what you won’t find on this list:

All the racism and sexism and moral failings the Democrats are so fond pointing out are not on the list.

All of that may be true, but it’s also clearly campaign rhetoric that has no impact on actual policy – it is how both parties today use emotions instead of politics to manipulate us.

But even leaving all the shocking bad-boy stuff out, there is still plenty to hate about Trump.

1. He is old

It’s not the years I worry about. Nor am I worried that he will go dement in office (as I was not particularly worried about that with Biden or with Reagan back in the day), though certainly a more vigorous president would be preferrable.

In fact, Trump’s age might turn out to be an advantage – you tend to get milder and wiser with age, and you care more about your legacy than about power and being right.

It’s the Trump era that is old. I yearn for something fresh.

Trump represents an era I don’t like and want to put behind me – an era of extreme polarization, partisanship and division. An era of screaming and yelling, of me-too-ing and what-about-ing and look-at-me-ing.

If there is any realistic comparison between Trump and Hitler, it’s the stress on the negative: His “politics of grievance,” as the Democrats like to say, his finger-pointing, his doom-saying, his smallness and meanness.