QOTD: Philip Roth
by digby
In the New Yorker:
“It isn’t Trump as a character, a human type—the real-estate type, the callow and callous killer capitalist—that outstrips the imagination. It is Trump as President of the United States.
“I was born in 1933, the year that F.D.R. was inaugurated. He was President until I was twelve years old. I’ve been a Roosevelt Democrat ever since. I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
He makes Nixon look honest and Bush look smart by comparison. And he is mentally ill, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
He came on TV this morning blabbing some nonsense about trade ("we are going to trade but we want everything to be made in the United States... blah, blah, blah") and I exploded at the TV screaming in anger after just two words.
I'm serious. My revulsion is strongly visceral, I can't seem to manage it. I don't think I can take four years of him.
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