TRUMP: Flip-flops fine

I appreciate the tone of the Coeur d’Alene Press April 28 editorial “No, you don’t want him to fail,” especially the sentence: “Agree or disagree with his stances, but recognize that even the most stubborn leaders excel when they’re receptive to accurate information and wisdom swaying their opinions.”

In other words, a flip-flop is not one of the seven deadly sins as suggested by the media or opposition.

Being able to change your opinion may be the mark of an open-minded realist, even though he is the world’s greatest narcissist.

My high school teacher of American Lit. taught me so much. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a favorite of hers. She taught me his observation:

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

When will supposedly wise writers or partisans of all stripes abandon the opportunity to rant and rave against “flip flops?”

Will they ever realize that we simple people are comforted by knowing that our leaders are not so egocentric (narcissistic) to think that what they believed in the past is still true today?

By the way, I’ve lived long enough to realize that changing out the word “consistency” in Emerson’s famous quote to “inconsistency” is an equally wise observation.

DICK SHELDON

Coeur d’Alene