No one looks back on that state of affairs today and thinks
it was anything but an abomination.
Donald Trump has categorized all Mexican immigrants as “rapists,”
and on Twitter he’s said “the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our
major cities is committed by blacks and Hispanics...,” as if ethnicity and race
were determinants of an individual’s criminal tendencies.
Trump has also proposed banning anyone who adheres to Islam
from entering the U.S., and creating a national database with information on
all Muslims residing in the U.S., the better for government to track their
movements, our sacred Constitution be damned.
Then there are Trump’s attitudes toward women; he’s long
been a raging embarrassment on that score. In
an interview with Esquire magazine in 1991, he said, “You know, it doesn’t
really matter what (the media) write as long as you’ve got a young and
beautiful piece of ass.”
In “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” published in 1997,
Trump said, “Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy,
but inside they are real killers. The
person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naïve
or had to be kidding. I have seen women
manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye – or perhaps another body part.”
Millions of Americans already regard those comments, proposals
and attitudes as abominations. And a
generation from now, most Americans will not be able to comprehend how in God’s
name the Republican Party nominated for president a man who thinks and speaks
and feels that way.
Charlie Baker said the other day, again, that he will not
vote for Trump in November.
I don’t know if our Republican governor was thinking in historical
dimensions or concerning himself with how future generations might assess his
position on Trump.
It could be that he simply believes Trump is not well
qualified for the presidency. (Our
governor abhors incompetence.)
Either way, Charlie, you made the right move. 
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