Donald Trump

Although he had no prior experience in public service, former President Donald Trump, despite losing the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, won the presidency in 2016.

Here's an account which might help, during the current campaign, to give a feeling for how unserious Trump's “political” rallies now are: “Since bursting onto the presidential scene in 2015, Trump has transformed the American public's conception of a political rally, taking the stage after hours of eardrum-shattering decibels of a self-curated playlist … ,” according to a Washington Post article by Ashley Parker, Marianne LeVine and Ross Godwin. He then screams out his overheated, crowd-pleasing plots for revenge and recrimination, such as his impulse to “‘cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists,' and to ‘throw off the sick political class that hates our country,'” according to the article.

It's astonishing that he can be so blind to his own hypocrisy. He himself is a thoroughgoing fascist, as can readily be seen from his embrace of the likes of Hungary's Viktor Orban and Russia's Vladimir Putin, and, especially, from the likeliness that he will, according to an Atlantic article by McKay Coppins, “prioritize obedience over credentials.”

Trump does not believe in our democratic tradition, the Constitution, national secrecy or climate change.

Trump stands exposed as a dilettante imposter. He lacks the needed background to successfully lead, and then covers by spewing out entertaining invective, thereby attacking the America the rest of us love.