An awful lot of our (read "my and my late wife's", among
others) ancestors, and a lot of our fellow American
contemporaries in the 70s and 80s, might be said to have
earned a like banishment, if truth be told.

This is no brief for Mr. Trump or his forebears, but today
it's not really in itself a black spot on the scutcheon. He's
his own black spot, say I.

Dave Oesterreich