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Without even a passing reference to the current president, Kissinger calls his former boss "politically astute yet prone to self-destructive acts; deeply patriotic yet wont to hazard his achievements on tawdry practices."
Pundits debated whether the candidacies would: 1) take votes from Republicans; 2) take votes from Democrats; or 3) create a self-destructive battle for the soul of the Reform Party.
Last week I noted that while Republicans are quarreling in a self-destructive way, like old-fashioned Democrats, Democrats appear to have learned Ronald Reagan's lesson about submerging internal differences for the sake of victory.
West is blunt about what he calls black "nihilism"--what he defines as "a numbing detachment from others and a self-destructive disposition toward the world."
It does not excuse their bad judgment to point out that there are white precedents for self-destructive democratic behavior.