Tag: America’s moral angst

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson Evidence of moral degeneracy For all those who in 2016 closed their eyes, held their noses and took a leap into the unknown by voting for Donald Trump, it is time to pry open those eyelids, gaze upon what they have wrought, and smell the decay pervading the country’s public sphere. Indeed, it seems that growing numbers have, rather belatedly, noticed the signs of moral degeneracy coming from the Oval Office. What took them so long? Actually, the time lapse is not really unusual. These Trump voters, having taken the leap sometimes for no other reason than their dislike of Hillary Clinton (and her “politics as usual” ways), returned to their local lives and carried on as before. It was Mrs Clinton’s defeat that satisfied them more than any concern with who ha...