'Unstable, disordered, and morally repulsive': Expert shreds Trump's final campaign weeks

Former President Donald Trump has proved more strongly than ever his unfitness to return to the nation's highest office, conservative former Naval War College professor and The Atlantic contributor Tom Nichols wrote in an analysis Friday. In particular, he said, Trump also attended the Al Smith Dinner hosted by the Catholic Diocese of New York, and, just as he did when he attended 8 years ago, delivered a mean-spirited performance, attacking Vice President Kamala Harris' IQ, saying it wasn't "settled" whether Abraham Lincoln was a good president, and whining about Fox News running Harris campaign ads. "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, and many others who should know better sat there and pretended that Trump was just a regular political candidate soft-shoeing his way through an Al Smith dinner," wrote Nichols. "All of these people should have refused to share a stage with Trump, but the dinner was another example of what Jonathan Last acidly — and rightly — calls 'Kabuki Normality,' the careful pretense that all is well, and that appearing with a convicted felon, a man found liable for sexual abuse, a racist and a misogynist and a 'fascist to the core,' is just another day at the office for the leader of New York’s Catholics and the senior Democratic senator from New York."