“LOCK her up! Lock her up!” a section of the crowd began to chant. But Donald Trump, slowly shaking his head, wasn’t playing that game today. “Let’s defeat her in November,” he said of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. This was impressive restraint; several previous speakers at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, which Mr Trump’s address brought to a close on July 21st, had recommended jail for her; one delegate said she should be shot. It was also untypical of Mr Trump.
While campaigning for the Republican nomination, which is now officially his, he mocked women over their menstrual cycle and looks; performed a gurning impression of a disabled journalist; implied that one of his opponents had something to do with child molestation; slandered the wife and father of another; said he wanted to beat up a protester; and many times recommended porridge for Mrs Clinton. His most devoted supporters, somewhere around 45% of Republican primary voters, appreciate, if not always the sentiment, then the unvarnished manner of such attacks. Unlike fork-tongued professional politicians, they say approvingly, Mr Trump speaks...Continue reading
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