Whatever virtues Trump and his administration are aiming for, mercy isn’t among them. Mercy, after all, is a quality of the strong; in his repeated attacks on those with the very least, Trump is most obviously weak. Meanwhile, Trump and his administration also are taking aim at welfare this year. Trump could read up a little on the Christian God’s mercy toward the weak in all those Bibles he claims to have. Trump, for as much as he styles himself a figure of abundance and luxury, with the guts to take on the strongest in society, is derelict where it comes to justice, and the most nakedly fragile where it comes to mercy.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2018 00:56 UTC