This isn’t quite in the category of one of the international crisis disqualifiers from presidency that Donald Trump has in such abundance. And admittedly, as a non-parent, it doesn’t hit home for me personally the way it will for many other people – the parent-people among us.
I don’t have to exercise a lot of imagination, though, to come up with this scenario:
Donald Trump has done or said something outrageous again, possibly followed by more outrage from some of his camp followers. Which outrage it is doesn’t matter for this purpose. But like so many others, it is captured by video cameras, and turns up on television or on a computer screen in the family’s living room.
And when the five-year-old in the house inquires of a parent about the language, ideas and actions of this famous man on the screen – or maybe, depending on how things go in November, the President of the United States – just how does this parent try to explain what the child sees?
There’s the next generation coming up, folks – and what they’re absorbing about what matters in how we relate to each other.
The only honest answer to that five year asking about that president or presidential candidate is the honest truth: You may already be too mature to become president of the United States. – rs
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