It is from the Corpus Christi Caller Times , a member of the USA Today Network, and is titled Our support for Hillary Clinton is enthusiastic.
Here are the first two paragraphs:
hat we endorse Hillary Clinton for president should come as no surprise. There really is no other choice. And that's unfortunate — not because, as many Americans have allowed themselves to be led to believe, the country desperately needs a viable alternative to her. It's unfortunate because of the shadow it casts upon the former secretary of state/senator/first lady's genuine worthiness to be our first female president.
She is not, as has been sold, a mere lesser of two evils. Her experience and intellect would make her a standout in any group of candidates. Like President Obama said and didn't need to be fact-checked, she's more qualified than him or her husband.
Their only reservations are about the divided nature of the country going forward.
They refuse to give Trump all the “credit” for that divided nature. They are, however, fairly critical of him:
He is only the intersection for fears and hatreds that already existed and that bring out the worst in the people privileged to live in the world's greatest nation. Using hatred and fear isn't what makes Trump smart. It's what makes him an insult to voters' intelligence.
Then there is this sentence:
Voting for Trump is a form of nihilism that the next president, no matter whom, will need to explore, understand and seek to remedy.
As I read that, my mind flashed back to an American officer in Vietnam who said that in order to save a village they had had to destroy it. I think also of the mindset of some on the extreme left during the 1960s who similarly thought that the first step to achieving the kind of society that they sought would require first to provoke a fascist response from the American government to force the people to oppose it.
We have much healing to do. That is clear from the resurgence of all kinds of nastiness, and is reflected in some of the more shocking data from recent polls.
It is reflected in the need to understand something of these Trump voters
would vote for someone who gained his American Dream through inheritance, exploitation, tax evasion, bankruptcy and the misfortunes of people like themselves — and why they would reject someone who gained her American Dream on merit, married once, hasn't divorced, and knows how to change a diaper.
That last bit is intended to bite.
They think that Hillary Clinton is the one to bridge the divides. They acknowledge her “basket of deplorables” remark may make that somewhat more difficult, but also recognize that she has a pattern of self-correcting her mistakes, and that the
former senator's Republican colleagues remember her fondly as a middle-ground-seeking master of the art of deal-making. If there is to be a return to bipartisanship, she is the one to lead it.
That is why they strongly conclude this editorial with these words:
The woman who memorably declared that women's rights are human rights and that it takes a village to raise a child is the candidate who has the right priorities and the perceptiveness to make this divided but great country greater.
the right priorities
the perceptiveness
Indeed.