LISTEN UP DONALD

From "Sedition, a Free Press, and Personal Rule" by President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1918

"The President is merely the most important amongst a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as it is to praise him when he does right.  Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him, or anyone else.  But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else."

This caught my attention as a tweet from JK Rowling.