There are scores of considerations in the upcoming elections. However one threshold issue towers over all others, and that is the question of Trump’s character. From Homer’s “Iliad” we learn the importance of honor, courage, and loyalty to country. From Herodotus’s “Histories” we learn of the perils of hubris, or excessive pride and arrogance, and the importance of proportionality in our responses to others.

Consider these bedrock principles of western thought and ethics when evaluating Donald Trump. He is a person obsessed with himself (hubris). His arrogance is to a level of pathological narcissism. He thinks he can do without the opinion of people wiser than him. He is proud of his disproportionate responses to minor provocations, making him a bully and a coward. He thinks that, because he’s rich, the normal rules and customs of behavior do not apply to him, so he’ll grab women when and where he wants.

Before we discuss political issues, we must face the fact that he is unfit for office. It is only by God’s grace that there has not been a nuclear crisis for him to escalate.
Bear in mind that voting for Trump is an endorsement of his values. It means that his attitudes are most like your own. It is not possible for a decent person to be comfortable with that. Trump must go if we are to have a peaceful, fair minded, free nation. Then we can debate tax policy, health insurance and the like.