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December 9, 2016      5:01 PM

Smith: Bent Knees Stay Bent

QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith argues that the imperial Donald Trump wants Americans to bend our knees to him. We should remain upright

 It’s not easy watching adult Americans sacrifice their pride and self-esteem so they can be ushered like serfs across the fake-gold lobby of Trump Tower for audience with a president-elect.

If we hold to the nation’s mythos, it’s a rather un-American impulse. True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn wouldn’t do it. For many, though, it seems there are unconquerable desires to be close to power or to have power embrace their interests.  

Some, of course, go there for apparently selfless reasons, hoping their fealty persuades Donald Trump to let a little light shine into his otherwise closed-tight-as-gold-vault mind. Still, it rattles democratic souls to know how most of the televised lobby crawls will end once the penthouse threshold is crossed: “Oh please oh please, I beg of thee, can I at least be undersecretary of something oh Majestic One?”

The full column by Glenn W. Smith can be found in the R&D Department.

By Glenn W. Smith

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