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Cook: My 40-day experiment with hate

Ashley Van Otterloo raises her candle with others at a vigil in support of immigrants held at Coolidge Park on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the wake of President Donald J. Trump's executive order on immigration. The vigil, titled "We All Belong," was held in partnership with Bridge Refugee Services. / Staff photo by Doug Strickland
Ashley Van Otterloo raises her candle with others at a vigil in support of immigrants held at Coolidge Park on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the wake of President Donald J. Trump's executive order on immigration. The vigil, titled "We All Belong," was held in partnership with Bridge Refugee Services. / Staff photo by Doug Strickland Ashley Van Otterloo raises her candle with others at a vigil in support of immigrants held at Coolidge Park on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the wake of President Donald J. Trump's executive order on immigration. The vigil, titled "We All Belong," was held in partnership with Bridge Refugee Services. / Staff photo by Doug Strickland

Yes, I’m voting. Gladly and eagerly, I will cast my Super Tuesday vote for a Democrat to defeat Donald Trump, one of the most repulsive presidents of all time.

Boorish.

And reckless.

“President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years,” The Washington Post reported in January.

“We have no responsible Republican Party anymore. It is a deformed Trump personality cult,” Thomas Friedman wrote last week.