“This is not normal,” say critics from fired FBI director James B. Comey to the feminist website Jezebel, which ran an article that repeated the phrase 437 times. But the way to prevent this is to defeat Trump politically — which means offering a better country, not a normal one. Trump’s racism, xenophobia and misogyny deserve the strongest condemnation, but to say they are “not normal” is a faint censure. The point isn’t that Trump is perfectly normal or even more normal than not. “This is not normal” offers a false diagnosis and sorry comfort that Trump came from nowhere and will revert there soon.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2018 09:56 UTC