We all have a lot to contemplate after this election cycle, including some ugly truths it has revealed about our nation.
America may elect a real female president. But judging by the men talking loudly, constantly about “toughness,” “stamina” and the sorry state of their gender, it seems American masculinity is still in crisis.
It’s the math enabling Trump to justify having a wife just a decade older than his daughter and a son who’s not as old as some of his jokes.
It took the mental image of their own child and/or spouse looking up to, or perhaps being in a room alone with, a man who casually chats about groping women against their will — labeled sexual assault in criminal codes — before GOP leaders could see the light and decide that harsh criticism, not lukewarm justification, was warranted?
How ironic then that the best and brightest of the baby boomers have in their own way replicated the missteps of their predecessors.
Neither Indiana Gov. Mike Pence nor Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine was pressed at all on his qualifications for the job, or on his readiness tobecome president if necessary.
The drama went off the docket this year for two reasons.
Stopping Trump is too important to be left to politicians
Nutrition industry took on the Big Tobacco template
What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves
Neighbors around Elma Airport object the racing noise
When candidates cite their children as experts, it’s a safe bet they haven’t studied the issue themselves.
In a real sense, millions of Americans got to know Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton a lot better after spending an hour-and-a-half with them in their parlors, living rooms and rec rooms.
