WALL STREET JOURNAL
Defining Presidential Down
by Bret Stephens
February 1, 2016

…The results of Monday’s Iowa caucus won’t be known until after this column goes to print. But here’s what we know already about the four top contenders. No prizes for matching names to descriptions: 1) A compulsive liar with a persecution complex, a mania for secrecy, and a bald disdain for rules as they apply to lesser people. 2) A bigoted braggart with a laughable grasp of public policy and leering manners of the kind you would expect from a barroom drunk. 3) A glib moralizer who is personally detested by every single senator in his own party, never mind the other one. 4) A Sixties radical preaching warmed-over socialism to people too young to know what it was or too stupid to understand what it does. Such are the character traits of the candidates now vying to possess the nation’s nuclear launch codes. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT