Trump & Violence
… one final clarification is in order. Trump is now the most powerful Head of State in the world, and one of the most impulsive, arrogant, ignorant, disorganized, chaotic, nihilistic, self-contradictory, self-important, and self-serving. He has his finger on the triggers of a thousand or more of the most powerful thermonuclear weapons in the world. That means he could kill more people in a few seconds than any dictator in past history has been able to kill during his entire years in power. Indeed by virtue of his office, Trump has the power to reduce the unprecedentedly destructive world wars and genocides of the twentieth century to minor footnotes in the history of human violence. To say merely that he is “dangerous” is debatable only in the sense that it may be too much of an understatement. If he even took a step in this direction, we will not be able to say that he did not warn us - loudly, clearly, and repeatedly. In that case, the fault will not be his alone it will also be ours.
(James Gilligan, M.D., chapter “The Issue is Dangerousness, Not Mental Illness,” in the book,
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump by Brandy Lee, p. 178)
Dick Henthorn
17 Dec 2017
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