It is eloquent, intelligent, logical, smart..........and they are right.

Well worth a careful read.

They will be continuing with these as time goes on.

He was a friggin' joke. We all knew it. They knew it.
But they tried to present him fairly, and make it look like any other presidential election.
They should have just written the truth.

Anyways, it's great to see these kinds of pieces. If only they put it on the front page.

Do you have a link?

We still get the L.A. Times.
But the media was very forgiving of Trump during that election. He was a frigging nut, and they conveyed him as a normal candidate.
I could go through Newspapers.com, but that will take me a long time.

I'll take your word for it.

My memory is not what it used to be.

what Representative Cummings said "we are fighting for the soul of our country, this is serious".

Pardon strategy should not factor into it. As members of the fourth estate, the press must use their social influence to call for him to leave, for the good of the country.

Of course he won't leave; but that's not the point. Once enough national newspapers are openly calling for him to go, it will help reach the tipping point. We're not there yet unfortunately, this could go on. And if it does go on, it could end badly for our republic.

Getting his enablers out is something else altogether. They must go down with the ship.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-20/trump-failures-outrages

Trump’s presidency is a train wreck. Let us count the ways
By The Times Editorial Board
Oct. 20, 2019

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Trump has caused thousands of children to be interned in inhumane conditions, often for months, resulting in deaths, injuries and traumatic separations from families, and without access to even rudimentary schooling.

He has insulted and alienated the nation’s friends and allies, rendering the democratic world leaderless.

He flirted with repudiating NATO, a mutual defense commitment that has kept the planet free from worldwide war and destruction since the end of World War II, and has done so at a time when Russia has exhibited increasing aggression by occupying territory of neighboring Ukraine, interfering in elections in the United States and Europe, and sending assassins to Britain to poison a former Russian spy.

He has cozied up to right-wing nationalist dictators and autocrats at a moment when citizens of faltering democracies and the many peoples around the world aspiring to freedom most need an advocate on the international stage.

He has rejected the honorable American presidential tradition of seeking unity and instead has indulged in the politics of division, willfully alienating a large segment of the American electorate while among his own supporters drumming up hatred for and suspicion of others.

He has transformed the White House, which should promote policies based on reality, into the world capital of ignorance, dishonesty and misinformation by reciting verifiable falsehoods, from the size of his inauguration crowd to the direction of a hurricane to the (disproven) prevalence of election fraud.

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Well worth saving.

VERY well worth saving.

This isn’t just a mere editorial. It’s a teaching tool. A reminder. An intellectual weapon. And the simple, bare, raw, and painful truth.

Definitely that last bit. You can tell he's been honing that scummy skill all his life. Regardless of the current mental fog he seems to inhabit, it's not accidental, not at all. It has always been completely intentional, often cruelly so.

Who exactly do they think is worse? I think back on world history and find hard to come up with a parallel. The only one that comes to mind is Hitler. Anyone have a more benign analogy? I would like to hear it. Seriously..

Wray, Coates, Mueller, Comey told us UNDER OATH that the election is being rigged "as we sit here" and the Times (and too many other entities) want citizens to rely on a RIGGED ELECTION to rid ourselves of him?

INFURIATING!!

The proper response is to advocate for his removal NOW. NOW.

And Trump and fam must be rendered penniless and powerless lest they stoke a cult rebellion in order to feed his passion for revenge.

Thanks, kpete!

Who will historians and political scientists say is the worst president in U.S. history?

The most important thing is getting this abomination out of office. How otherwise normal people voted for him baffles me.

American history.

There, I fixed it for them.

Please wake up

If he'd just read a few it might send him off the charts bonkers!

I agree the editorial is spot on, however, the above quote reeks too much of both siderism. Let's not act like it's the Democrats that are tearing this country apart. Now that we're fighting back, we're portrayed as part of the problem?

Does anyone remember a story from right after the election or, more importantly, have links or updates?

Here is how I recall it: There was a man in some small NY town who was totally dismayed by the election results. So dismayed that he got the entire town not to tell him anything that was going on during the Trump administration.

I was thinking that after the self-imposed media blackout is lifted, it would be interesting to see his reaction to an updated and expanded version of the editorial. You know, basically a recap or an honest state of the union report. May we all live to see the day that all of this can be viewed with detached horror as an aberration.

But anyway, despite being pretty good with search engines, I can't find any reference to the story. Do you have any info?

The absolute worst ever, not even close. He is a horrible aberration and sadly showed we still have racial issues because I have little doubt his election was a reaction to our first President of Color.