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Following the sack of the Capitol, and with Donald Trump leaving the White House shattering precedents as he has throughout his time in office, we have a new, or perhaps just transformed, species of conservative. These individuals are, many for the first time in five years, acknowledging misgivings about their prior support for Trump and his presidency. The essence of this new position attempts to bridge the chasm between, “The incitement to violence was wrong” and “Look at all the cool stuff we got out of the past four years.” Points for effort but the books don’t balance. The price tag of the Trump presidency exceeds its value exponentially. The tax cuts, deregulation, judicial appointments, executive orders, and cultural counter-offensives (“he fights”) are trinkets compared to the way he has undermined the values and norms required to sustain the rule of law and the constitutional order. These shiny objects were used to distract, mollify, and provide justification for America’s closest brush with authoritarian government since 1789. >"The Bulwark is a news network launched in 2018 dedicated to providing political analysis and reporting free from the constraints of partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices."
Following the sack of the Capitol, and with Donald Trump leaving the White House shattering precedents as he has throughout his time in office, we have a new, or perhaps just transformed, species of conservative. These individuals are, many for the first time in five years, acknowledging misgivings about their prior support for Trump and his presidency. The essence of this new position attempts to bridge the chasm between, “The incitement to violence was wrong” and “Look at all the cool stuff we got out of the past four years.” Points for effort but the books don’t balance. The price tag of the Trump presidency exceeds its value exponentially. The tax cuts, deregulation, judicial appointments, executive orders, and cultural counter-offensives (“he fights”) are trinkets compared to the way he has undermined the values and norms required to sustain the rule of law and the constitutional order. These shiny objects were used to distract, mollify, and provide justification for America’s closest brush with authoritarian government since 1789. >"The Bulwark is a news network launched in 2018 dedicated to providing political analysis and reporting free from the constraints of partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices."
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