US General Election: ‘Honest Villain’ Defeats ‘Hypocrite’
The ugly shamelessness of an honest villain is easy to see through, whereas who knows the exact distance between a hypocrite’s real moral bottom line and the public’s perception of it?
Published in Ta Kung Pao (Hong Kong) on 09 November 2016 by Ping SUI [link to original]
Translated from Chinese by Jia Liu. Edited by Alexandra Mullin.
Posted on November 19, 2016.
Today, as the new U.S. president-elect, Trump, and his supporters celebrated their victory, perhaps hundreds of millions of people around the world had to “steady their hands and stop their eyeglasses from dropping,” as we say in China.
Played for hundreds of years, America’s game of election had never been, until today, so full of drama and controversy. The two presidential candidates, with completely different backgrounds, styles and views, together presented a Hollywood-style show that could very well compete with House of Cards Season 3.
http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2016/11/19/us-general-election-honest-villain-defeats-hypocrite/
