But this President is simply not a good human being, and there’s simply no way around this truth.

He is the ugliest personification of the Ugly American, which is why, as long as he is here and as long as he represents this nation, we will be a fractured mess and a global embarrassment. He will be the ever lowering bar of our legacy in the world.

And what is painfully obvious in these moments, isn’t simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being—it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, amening him, probably is too.

At this point, the only reason left to support this President, is that he reflects your hateful heart;he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your ignorant bigotry, your feeling of supremacy.

A white President calling countries filled with people of color #badword#holes, is so far beyond the pale, so beneath decency, and so blatantly racist that it shouldn’t merit conversation. It should be universally condemned. Humanity should be in agreement in abhorring it.

And yet today (like so many other seemingly rock bottom days in the past twelve months) they will be out there: white people claiming to be good people and Christian people, who will make excuses for him or debate his motives or diminish the damage.

They will dig their heels in to explain away or to defend, what at the end of the day is simply a bad human being saying the things that bad human beings say because their hearts harbor very bad things.

No, good people don’t call countries filled with beautiful, creative, loving men and women #badword#holes.

And good people don’t defend people who do.

You’re going to have to make a choice here.==============================

Yes, there are things he has done I like, things of real consequence- Gorsuch and religious freedom and not being beholden to one broker or another and such. But, even with all of that, there is too much. I see who he is quite clearly. All of my life, I have sought - demanded - leadership I could be proud of. Leadership I could point my kids toward. My teenage daughters. This man is not that. Yes, I get “politics.” But character matters. I care deeply about character. Character is everything in life. I called out Bill Clinton, called out Jesse Jackson, called out Jesse Helms, called out a multitude of misbegottens from every strata of the political landscape and I call out Donald Trump, who is as bad or worse than them all, times two.

Dear God, give me a Statesman.