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“Something” Just Doesn’t Cut It.
President shows tremendous lack of leadership in response to racial-hate fueled domestic terrorism
Look, we make no secret of the fact that we are not huge fans of President Trump. (Though we also don’t hesitate to praise him when he does something good). But we sure expected something solid out of him Monday, after he’d had almost a whole weekend (yeah, albeit at his golf club in New Jersey) to figure out some kind of response beyond “God bless” and a vague pledge to make “something” happen in response to a deadly terrorist attack on the American public this weekend. We don’t expect him to have all the answers right away. But it’s not like this is something totally new.
At time of publication of this story, the number of people killed in Texas just climbed to 22. Even if Trump had made a real proposal we didn’t agree with at all, it would’ve meant something to us in terms of response and leadership. There’s no excuse for not coming up with anything concrete, and…
