How did we get to the point where the president puts our culture and democracy at risk through his words and actions, and it’s shrugged off as if it were normal?

In social media posts and unscripted press comments, he uses language unimaginable from any other president in American history. In recent months, Mr Trump was photographed making an obscene gesture and mouthing a vulgarity at a demonstrator; demeaned a popular TV personality who had just been murdered; called a Somali-American member of Congress garbage, adding that all Somalis were garbage; called the Governor of Minnesota “retarded,” an especially hurtful slur as that governor has a son with a disability; and insulted women reporters as “ugly,” “obnoxious,” and “stupid” for asking challenging questions.

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It’s not just his “unpresidential” speech. Mr Trump’s constant need to gratify his ego leads to exaggerated false claims about his grievances and his successes. He claims that he has been attacked by media, Congress, and law enforcement agencies like no other president in history. And he boasts that he has improved the economy and made our cities safer than ever before. None of this is........

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