Who is to blame for not stopping Trump sooner?
Few suspects spared a mention in Jonathan Freedland’s hall of shame. They include the other Republican presidential candidates such as Jeb Bush, Marco and Ted Cruz who “allowed themselves to be streamrollered by a reality TV host and serially bankrupted businessman”. But also “Trump’s trio of enablers: Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich.”
Those three horsemen of the Republican apocalypse conspired in the lie that a snake-oil salesman was fit to be president – and destroyed what remained of their reputations in the process.
Plus Trump’s running mate Mike Pence: “the defender of family values who has served as the running mate of a thrice-married, serially adulterous, self-confessed grabber of women.”
Freedland also rounds on the “indulgence on a epic scale” of the media. And there are cameos for Julian Assange and Vladimir Putin.
And finally there’s a dig at the US electorate:
Some blame surely attaches to the Americans who let Trump keep up the bullying and the bigotry and voted for him anyway. There is no escaping the fact that north of 40% of the US electorate have been prepared to vote for Trump despite everything that he has said and done. One poll found 22% of Trump’s own supporters believed he would start a nuclear war. They thought that, but were prepared to vote for him anyway. None of them will be able to say: “We didn’t know.”
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