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Trumpers and anti-Trumpers alike, who does Andrew Coyne of the National Post remind you of?

Asked by flo (13313points) September 13th, 2016

Is there another writer or broadcaster who he reminds you of? And what do you think of the article?
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-media-presenting-a-false-balance-between-clinton-and-trump

*”...yes, the press is trying to be even-handed — that’s the problem. For they are presenting as equivalents two candidates who manifestly are not: a practice known as “false balance.
This is the particular dilemma of covering Trump, or any candidate so clearly unfit for office. There is no getting around this. There’s a version of Trump that his supporters have in their heads who is merely “controversial”: a little rough around the edges, maybe politically incorrect, but a straight talker who’s willing to face down the special interests, etc. But that’s not who Trump is.

He’s not just lacking in relevant experience: his whole career is a series of failures, frauds and lawsuits. He is not just untutored in public policy: he lacks the most basic understanding of it. He is not just dishonest: he lies more often than he tells the truth, so often that he seems genuinely unaware of the distinction. He is not just coarse: he has poured forth a stream of vulgarity, insults and open racism never before witnessed in a candidate for president. And so on.

It would simply be untruthful to report on such a candidate as if he were like any other. There is no way to normalize Trump, and we shouldn’t. I realize that will strike some readers as biased. There is no getting around that, either. Reasonable people can differ, but so can unreasonable. At some point elementary judgment enters into it.

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