Description
Description:
It’s not easy to get under Dan’s normally flexible, see-things-from-multiple-angles skin, but Donald Trump’s stated willingness to cross traditional American moral fault lines has done just that.
Show Notes
1. “Donald Trump on terrorists: ‘Take out their families’ “ by Tom LoBianco for CNN, December 3, 2015 http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/
2. “Trump backs waterboarding and ‘a lot more’ after Brussels attacks” By Eugene Robinson for The Washington Post, January 28th, 2016 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0WO11J
3. Justice Louis Brandeis in Whitney v. California (1927)
4. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in United States v. Schwimmer (1929)
rdepierolac –
Torture is incredibly tempting, because you never imagine doing it or doing it more than once.
But, as you said with your grandpa example, once you make it normal, you’re a monster,