Trump voters, just hear me out

THIS is my last column until after the election, so I'd like to address the people least likely to read it: Donald Trump voters. Who knows? Maybe I'll get lucky and a few of them will buy fish wrapped in this column, and they'll accidentally peruse it! Desperate times call for desperate measures.

While I've opposed the Trump candidacy from the start, I've never disparaged Trump voters. Some are friends and neighbours; they're all fellow Americans. We should take their concerns seriously. But we should also demand that they be serious, that they draw distinctions between these two presidential candidates.

Yes, Hillary Clinton is a flawed leader - but in the way so many presidents were. We know her flaws: She has a weakness for secrecy, occasionally fudges truths, has fawning aides and has a husband who lacks discipline when it comes to money-making and women. But she is not indecent, and that is an important distinction. And she's studious, has sought out people of substance on every issue and has taken the job of running for president seriously.