The president’s grasp of the reins of executive power has slipped. Other elected officials must bring us back within the confines of the constitutional order.
Minimizing the threat of Trumpism ignores the lessons of Trump’s disastrous rise, and belittles the hard on-the-ground work going into Trump’s potential defeat.
Some reactionary conservatives claim that liberal democracy destroys the social fabric—but they conveniently ignore countervailing traditions and many current realities.
Trump’s attacks on the whistleblower and other impeachment witnesses work to collapse the differences between competing kinds of loyalties. It’s the worst kind of moral relativism.
