Every American owes the new president an open mind and a chance to be a better man and to govern in a way that makes America a better place. But no one owes Trump a retrospective change of heart about the reasons they came to doubt him in the first place.
Nothing that happened on Nov. 8 changes the answer to the question of whether Trump University was a scam. Trump’s taped conversation about groping women remains a disgusting sign, and just one among many, of his unapologetic amorality. An election win doesn’t change the fact that he claimed an American-born federal judge’s Mexican heritage makes him incapable of doing his job fairly. And those are just a few of some four dozen examples I could offer here.
Romney, like Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Nikki Haley for that matter, is right to approach Trump’s administration with an open mind. He could retain his dignity were he to serve in Trump’s administration for the sake of his country. But he would look very, very silly indeed if he made a public reassessment of Trump’s character based on the fact that Trump just won an election. Election victories do not in themselves make anyone a better person.
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