“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” (Opening sentence of “Donald J. Trump’s Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration.”)Residents of Iowa and New Hampshire, we entrust you with a near sacred task. Out of all 50 states, you and, for all intents and purposes, you alone, are entrusted with the duty of narrowing the field of contenders to the very few. No President in modern times has taken the White House without winning at least one of your elections. Indeed, no nominee for the office has failed to win one of them. You define the finalists with your votes.
It is you who get to know our candidates, and vet them one by one. You meet them in your diners, at your state fairs, in your school gymnasiums and VFW halls. You talk with them across tables, question them in conversation, and assess them on a human level. And while you are bombarded with their "messaging," blanketed with advertisements positive and negative, you are adept of filtering them out and getting to the core of the candidacy. We have had bad Presidents, to be sure, but by and large you have done your duty in ensuring that our nominees have the basic acumen to be considered for our highest office.
But if this is your duty, your ritual and your privilege, you are failing us now. Because there is a pretender to the presidency, and you are showering him with legitimacy even as he desecrates our values. He has been atop virtually all of the polls in your states since the beginning of August – 45 out of 53 by one rough count.
And it must stop, and stop now...
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