Will you feel safe at your competitions knowing that people with mental problems might be participating?
This is a great example of the kind of disingenuous wailing that I've grown so tired of recently. This has never been a real problem. It's a partisan talking point meant to appeal to trivial fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Do you feel safe while driving a motor vehicle, knowing that the other drivers have been licensed via a system in which NO MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING OCCURS!?!?!
Trump is a terrible president for actual reasons, pertaining to governance and everything, which impacts the lives of real people in measurable ways. But to read the comments about Trump in this thread, one might think that the US government was a largely inconsequential social club, without any power or responsibilities, and we ought to judge its representatives based merely on how much we like their personalities.
This is my problem with the broader political discourse in the US—it's almost exclusively focused on things that don't matter. Automation is accelerating the end of employment, climate trends probably threaten our continued existence, poverty is somehow still a thing, and we're talking about whether the head of the executive seems egotistical in our opinion.
I worry that this pervasive misdirection makes it almost impossible for us to identify good candidates in the future. People talk about Clinton being the better candidate because she "seemed presidential" and so on, which enrages and terrifies me, because it sounds good enough to satisfy people while managing to miss everything remotely important about being president.
Maybe I should just be thankful we're not contemplating Obama's totally plausible death panels, or the equally convincing reports that Trump is a Russian spy.