John Bennion: Republicans and Democrats should be appalled by Trump

My mother was a Republican and my father a Democrat, each a hair’s breadth from center, but they cooperated enough to have six children and raise us to be good people and good citizens. I’ve been asking myself what they and other centrists who raised families in the ’50s and ’60s might think of our country’s direction today.My mother once said about Richard Nixon, “I’d rather have a smart, dishonest president than a dumb one.” It shocked me then, a