See, I don't buy that shit.
Say what you want about Trump being a "con man" who "doesn't care about anything but himself," a man who is reckless and incompetent and a liar. It's all ad hominem: a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person. It may all be true, what Walsh says, but it's still a fallacious argument. And that's not the worst of it.
Walsh says Trump "is placing this country in real danger" -- that's the conclusion of his fallacious ad hominem argument. So it's not like Walsh is saying Trump has all these character flaws AND he's placing the country in real danger. Walsh is saying Trump is placing the country in real danger BECAUSE he has all these character flaws. Walsh leaves out our economic troubles, which are the real danger to our country.
This suggests to me that Walsh, just like Trump and those who came before, really has no idea how to resolve our economic difficulties and so simply avoids the topic. Either that, or he's just trying to ride a wave of popular opinion.
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