US cultural decay is clear

After witnessing the back and forth of the Frederica Wilson-John Kelly-President Trump confrontation, I have no alternative but to confirm that our American culture is on a rapid decline now.

What leads me to this negative assessment are two factors.

First, it is not that the president, as usual, dropped the ball communicating with widow Myeshia Johnson; for it is clear that Mr. Trump failed or never attended a good manners finishing school. Neither is a factor that after Congresswoman Wilson — wisely — decided to shut her mouth, the president continued hurling insults at her. No, because these are just an individual response to a particular situation.

The institutional responses are the ones that concern. For they are the ones that count in taking the pulse of a nation. The national press — I am talking about the big press and the television stations — had a field day of making an unfortunate choice of words an event of Watergate level. I have to say that we are truly lost as a culture if our guiding force — the press — lacks perspective into what it is decisive and what it is not. Then, with the sole exception of Sen. John McCain, who seems to carry within himself the dignity of the whole Congress, no one in that institution has so far squarely faced the president on his totally inadmissible insults to a lady and a representative of the United States.