‘Demagogue’ Trump ‘unfit to be president’

A high-powered group of traditionally Republican Catholics appealed to Catholics “and all men and women of good will” to oppose Republican contender Donald Trump’s presidential bid, writes James Roberts.

The appeal “to our fellow Catholics” published in the National Review is drafted by Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, and George Weigel, biographer of St John Paul II. “Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States,” the appeal says.

Accusing him of “demagoguery” it says: “His appeals to racial and ethnic fears and prejudice are offensive to any Catholic sensibility … there is nothing in his campaign or previous record that gives us grounds for confidence that he shares our commitments to the right to life, to religious freedom and the rights of conscience, to rebuilding the marriage culture, or to subsidiarity and the principle of limited constitutional government.”