The Vulgarian

The new, New York Times article on Trump, based on interviews turned over to but not conducted by them, is the most informative and telling thing I've seen. Trump is a pig and an outlier, his entire life a sham of brazenness and the belittling of other people, an act incorporating a false facade of power and self-sufficiency masking inner and appropriate feelings of worthlessness.

But Trump doesn't concern me. I see him for the nonentity and fraud that he is. Troublingly, though, the Republican electoral machine has belched him into political prominence and it reveals how rotten we are as a country and how incapable we are of being true stewards of our now fading democracy. We are the unworthy heirs and Trump is our populist vulgarian, the very worst of us.