A friend just shot this Boston Globe opinion piece my way. Did a quick check of the recents and didn’t see anything about this piece so thought I’d just get it out there. It is clear, lucid and with an implicit warning about Trump’s lies:
“Instead, because Trump lies to assert power, using the flimsy Clinton excuse is essentially saying, “I can do whatever I want for whatever reason I want.” Being obliged to give a reasonable reason would actually be bowing to a kind of constrained power — the presidency limited by reason, by logic, by reason-giving. He wants us to know he is unconstrained. He wants us to know he can exercise power arbitrarily.”
Head on over, it is a quick read, and does make an interesting case for why Trump doesn’t care how outlandish or easily dismissed his lies are.