I never really understood the appeal. I DO understand the appeal of an outside the Beltway kind of President. I didn't like Perot, but I sure understood the appeal.

But Trump's appeal was always beyond my grasp, for the reasons you listed. Those qualities of his have ALWAYS been in full view.

I get it when someone wants a non-politician to run for President, and win.

But there still must be at least some minimum amount of moral evaluation involved. A LITTLE honest scrutiny.

When hundreds, and I really do mean hundreds, of small business owners say they were screwed out of money for working for Trump, what is so difficult about listening to that? When, what? 18 women or something? Say that they were sexually assaulted by the man, and he admits to it in a taped recording, you listen to that. When he says he is proud about not paying taxes, that ought to be a red flag.

When he is involved in more than 1500 lawsuits, you listen to that. When he makes suggestive remarks to pre-teens on an escalator, you hear that out and make a better judgement about who he is as a human being.

When one of his closest early associates is Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief legal counsel during the McCarthy hearings in 1954, you question that.

There was no excuse for voting for Trump. None. Never has been, never will be. Unless you are someone who truly stands for his "ideals."