Chris Cillizza: Trump Has Lost Any Sense of a Moral High Ground

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CILLIZZA: "What you have now post-Charlottesville and what Donald Trump said about it Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday is a White House and a President who has lost any sense of the moral high ground that being president gives you. Saying that this is a both sides issue forfeits your moral leadership which in moments like this is what people look to a president, Republican president, Democratic president for. Barack Obama's speech in Charleston after the shooting at the church, George W. Bush on the pilot after September 11, there are moments in presidencies in which it is not Republican and Democrat, it is you appeal to our better angels, you are the best of us and you lead us and assure us things will be better. When you abdicate that responsibility and you not only abdicate it, you essentially say this is the same old politics, I think you’re in a different place than simply saying, 'I’m surprised he didn’t get health care repeal through.'”