While watching the start of the Presidents Cup last week, I know I was not alone in thinking that I would gladly trade any of the three former presidents in attendance — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — for the current occupant of the White House.
The sad reality is that, save for the stubborn fraction of Americans who represent Donald Trump’s base, the overwhelming majority of us concluded long ago that the current president is intellectually, ethically, and temperamentally unfit for the office. The percentage of government leaders — governors, senators, representatives, judges, etc. — who feel the same is probably even higher.
But none of us seem to know what to do about this terrible quandary. So we sit and watch as our putative leader makes the country and world more dangerous, more contentious, and less compassionate than we would want.
That we managed to allow the election of such a person in the first place is on us. That we cannot collectively figure out how to bring the lunacy to an end is also on us.
Michael Knosp
Waltham