An Epitaph for Trump: "One Thing Leads To Another"

 

Spencer Cox of Utah

Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, my homeland once-upon-a-tale, is trying to curry favor with Donald Jethro Trump. Gov. Cox ordered the flags in the state that have been at half-staff for the passing of Jimmy Carter to go to full staff today for the Inauguration. "Did you see, Sir? Did you see what I did in your honor?"

This may seem like a small thing, but the problem is that, with President-elect Trump, one thing leads to another .... When Trump first ran for president, other Republican politicians excused his bluster. Then, it was his immorality. Finally, it was his criminality. The result was Republican politicians, including some from Utah, defending behavior by Trump they would likely never do themselves and, in the process, urging other Americans to malign the justice system that all Americans should respect.

--Richard Davis, a professor emeritus at BYU, in the Salt Lake Tribune