This Week in Washington

DECEMBER 10, 2017 10:49 AM
by LYNN YAEGER

It takes a lot to turn the iron stomach of someone who has been watching the disintegration of American political life ... But yesterday, when the President, who not even a day before had rousingly campaigned for the purported child molester and latter-day segregationist Roy Moore, came to the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and dared to offer pious comments on a subject about which he knows and cares nothing, it brought tears of rage ...

In ..unconvincing, scripted remarks, Trump .. found time to praise himself: "Mississippi — a state where I've had great success," he free-associated to an audience that did not include .. civil rights icons who chose to boycott the event. Repellent as the president’s presence was, at least he didn’t take the opportunity to extoll the long lost days of human bondage, which his preferred Senate candidate Moore looks upon with misty-eyed nostalgia: "I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery," he offered last September. "They cared for one another. People were strong in the families. Our families were strong. Our country had a direction" ...

https://www.vogue.com/article/washington-news-trump-roy-moore-travel-ban-legal-contradictions