In 1968, Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan, all substantial men, were all candidates. Politicians receive and yield to more temptations to undignified behaviour than most, and as Bret Stephens and Andrew Coyne both emphasize, Hillary Clinton is no candidate for sainthood. I think both Hillary Clinton and Trump would have a less trigger-happy concept of the national interest than George W. Bush did, and a less ambiguous and flakey concept of it than Obama has. Personally, I find Trump a refreshing change from the bipartisan elite of the Bush-Clinton-Obama quarter century that has generally failed. But we are discussing imperfect candidates, not evil or deranged people.

Source: National Post September 16, 2016 20:36 UTC