It is a full-time job to call out every one of Donald Trump’s lies and efforts to divide this nation, but his “vermin” address on Saturday deserves special attention. The ex-president and leading Republican candidate for 2024 dishonored military veterans and further tainted his political party with a hate-filled Veterans’ Day speech featuring words that would have been at home in Nazi Germany. He promised to “root out” his opponents — supposedly on behalf of veterans who fought to protect liberty. In response to criticism that Trump was calling for violence against his enemies, his campaign doubled down. How can Americans, Republicans particularly, recognize Trump as the successor to their great leaders of the past?

Source: Los Angeles Times November 18, 2023 09:56 UTC