Trump’s cruelty and vulgarity have done incredible damage — but let’s stop pretending he’s ‘un-American’

Trump’s cruelty and vulgarity have done incredible damage — but let’s stop pretending he’s ‘un-American’: Here is a good, truth-in-advertising political slogan: “How much money will it bring in?” That is also the question that Alexis de Tocqueville argued Americans use to ascertain the “value of everything in this world.”

The almighty profit motive reins so steadfastly supreme in the world’s wealthie