Thomas More on Trump

To mock the deformed or maimed is regarded as ugly and disfiguring, not to the individual mocked but to the one who mocks, because like an idiot he’s blaming the unfortunate victim for something he can do nothing about.[1]

 ~ Thomas More, Utopia (1516)

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[1] Thomas More, Utopia, tr. and ed. Dominic Baker-Smith (Toronto: Penguin, 2012), p. 95.