How Disgusting Can Trump Get?

I got interested in politics and political campaigns in 1960, when a bunch of us cut some high school classes and went down to Herald Square to see a big rally thrown by the various garment workers unions for JFK. And for the subsequent sixty-three years from then until now, I can honestly say that I have paid close attention to what is said by all the candidates in every Presidential campaign.

In that regard, Donald Trump was recently interviewed on an alt-right digital network, Real America’s Voice, and when he was asked how he felt about Joe, this is what he said: “He’s a stone cold crook. He’s a common thief. He’s a lowlife and he’s a very stupid person. Beyond anything else, I mean, he’s a stupid person.”

I would probably be making an underestimation, but over the last 60-odd years, I have probably read or heard what one Presidential candidate had to say about another candidate perhaps 50,000 times. Take 60 campaigns, multiply that number of 5 which represents the average number of candidates who seriously compete in the primaries on both sides. Then take that number and multiply it by 300, which is the number of days that I pay attention to the campaigns.

This gives you 90,000 times that I probably could have been conscious of what one political contender said about an opponent during a Presidential campaign. And in all of those…