PhotoConservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. “I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,” he said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also “active in discussing” John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. Also, the Democratic condemnations of McCain and Romney weren’t as widespread and operatic as the ones of Trump. He was Trump before Trump, which makes Trump less Trump.

Source: New York Times September 01, 2016 20:03 UTC