Peter Wehner

Peter Wehner is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Christians as a Cultural Minority (Again)

Peter Wehner

The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace.

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The Washington Institute / January 14, 2021

Many Republicans Own This Insurrection

Peter Wehner

Responsibility for the storming of the Capitol extends well beyond President Trump.

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The Atlantic / January 7, 2021

Some Republicans Have Finally Found a Line They Won’t Cross

Peter Wehner

The GOP needs leaders who will distance their party from the wreckage and the ruin the president has brought.

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The Atlantic / January 4, 2021

Cowards are Destroying the GOP

Peter Wehner

Those who have hoped that Republican leaders would begin to break free from Donald Trump once he lost the election have not understood the nature of the change that has come over the party’s base.

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The Atlantic / December 31, 2020

The Forgotten Radicalism of Jesus Christ

Peter Wehner

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly radical and radically inclusive figure Jesus was, and neither are today’s Christians. We want to tame and domesticate who he was, but Jesus’ life and ministry don’t really allow for it.

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The New York Times / December 24, 2020

Trump Is Losing His Mind

Peter Wehner

The president is discussing martial law in the Oval Office, as his grip on reality falters.

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The Atlantic / December 20, 2020

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

Peter Wehner

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

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The Atlantic / December 7, 2020

Choose Repair, Not Revenge

Peter Wehner

Because we are a nation so fractured that each side barely comprehends the other, this is a time for magnanimity.

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The Atlantic / November 16, 2020

Trump Lives in a Hall of Mirrors and He’s Got Plenty of Company

Peter Wehner

If Donald Trump loses his re-election bid, there will be a lot of ruin to sort through. But his most damaging and enduring legacy may well turn out to be the promiscuous use of conspiracy theories that have defined both the man and his presidency.

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The New York Times / November 2, 2020

Biden May Be Just the Person America Needs

Peter Wehner

In a different time, with a different president, Joe Biden would not stand out. But President Trump’s particular maladies have created a moment in which Biden’s greatest strengths as a person are most needed by the nation.

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The Atlantic / November 2, 2020

Evangelicals Made a Bad Bargain With Trump

Peter Wehner

If evangelical supporters of Trump are honest, they should admit—at least to themselves, if not to the rest of the world—that something has gone terribly amiss and that the power they have achieved is coming at the expense of the faith they proclaim.

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The Atlantic / October 18, 2020

Now Comes the Reckoning

Peter Wehner

The issue on which the president is most vulnerable, and that he has done everything in his power to obscure—the pandemic—is now, because of his own illness, front and center in the presidential campaign.

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The Atlantic / October 5, 2020