I have never written about Charles Murray without the most overt of sneers.1 Well, that has to change, because Charles, writing in the National Review, has just nailed the best right-wing take-down of Donald Trump I’ve ever read, “Why ‘Hillary is even worse’ doesn’t cut it”. Sample quotes:
“In my view, Donald Trump is unfit to be president in ways that apply to no other candidate of the two major political parties throughout American history.”
“When a man deliberately inflames the antagonism of one American ethnic group toward another, takes pleasure in labeling people “losers,” and openly promises to use the powers of the presidency to punish people who get in his way, there is nothing that person can do or say in private that should alter my opinion of whether he is fit to be the president of the United States.”
Nice writin’, Charlie.
- Sample headlines: “Yes, Charles Murray is an asshole” and “If you work for AEI, you may be a redneck”. ↩︎
