@hightor,
Definitely do NOT miss it!
Quote:[Trump] believes these things because he’s two parts crazy, one part stupid, but also because he’s been engaging in corruption his entire life, to the point that it’s second nature. It’s not so much that he doesn’t understand the difference between right and wrong, it’s that corruption is his first instinct, and the only course of action in his mind.
Exactly. If we were to imagine a scale with Abe Lincoln at one end and Don Corleone at the other end, we know where Trump would fall. The only thing that makes that analogy imperfect is that Trump is far stupider than the Corleone character.
But I'd question the assumption that Trump knows right from wrong. I think he understands that there are laws and norms, certainly, but as with any bully or sociopath, he doesn't care. Moral constraints - even holding any sort of moral vision - is for losers.
