Trump presidency would be a lesson

The nativist Trumpistas have squealed and squalled about Obama being a Communist dictator riding roughshod over the Constitution for eight years. Now they embrace a candidate who admires and seems to want to emulate an actual Soviet-style dictator. The main distinction between Trump and what they accuse Obama of being is skin color. It is not a president but a grand wizard that is wanted.

But I am sanguine about the Trump-Putin ticket. I believe in the value of education and should Trump-Putin prevail, it is what we want and will undoubtedly teach us a valuable lesson. The Germans learned much from traveling a similar path, and they are now one of the most admirable and functional of societies. It was an expensive lesson but, as any debt-smothered recent grad can tell you, education does not come cheap.

Frank White