Doris Kearns Goodwin on Trump’s Response to Michael: This Is Not How Presidents Deal with Disasters

‘We can’t make ourselves feel this is the way normally it is’

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GOODWIN: “This is not the way presidents have normally dealt with disasters. Just that contrast between the voice of Jeb Bush and the voice of President Trump at the rally has to make you feel this cannot be normal. If we allow this to be normal we are losing our sense of who we are as Americans. I keep saying over and over again, Teddy Roosevelt said the rock of democracy will founder if people in different regions, different sections, different races, different religions think of themselves as the other. That's what's happening now and we need leadership to bring that back together again."

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