Estrich: Is this the best the GOP can do?

Susan Estrich: Republicans reckless rhetoric is dangerous

From the commentary, "The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives."

Estrich: Is this the best the GOP can do?

At a campaign rally this week in Nebraska, President Donald Trump made what can most generously be described as a tasteless joke. In his flailing effort to justify a war that most Americans oppose, he exaggerated the threat Iran poses, at California’s expense.