 This winter, the former president urged Iowans to vote for him and score a victory over their fellow Americans. All of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, freaks, and creeps. In a Veterans Day speech in New Hampshire, he used the word vermin, a term he has deployed to describe both immigrants and political opponents. What a president says reflects on the United States and the kind of society we aspire to be.