Mom Confessions

Trump is glorifying violence against journalists. This is a national disgrace.

Joel Mathis

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October 19, 2018
Two things seem ever-more certain as Donald Trump's presidency continues: First, Trump's anti-media rhetoric is going to get a journalist killed, or at least badly injured. Second, Trump doesn't care.

We're long past the point of debating whether to take Trump's antagonizing rhetoric about the media seriously or literally. After a year of "enemy of the people" talk, and in a week in which the world outside the Oval Office mourned a journalist murdered by an evil, oppressive regime, Trump decided on Thursday that the best way to appeal to his supporters at a Montana rally was to praise a congressman best known for assaulting a reporter.

This is worse every day.
I know some Republicans who regret voting for him.
But they don’t know what to Do next.
We have to hope that a normal intelligent responsible mature person runs in 2020.
It has to be better than what we have now.