Published October 10, 2024
The 2024 election isn’t a contest between the past and the future. It feels, instead, like a struggle between the past and the past. If Mao Zedong were among us, he would call it the Conflict of the Two Olds.
Donald Trump has been around for too long—an old man with the pouting grievances of a child. He is a miracle of unassimilated experience. His entire lifetime has gone by, yet he remains about 10 years old. Every day is Groundhog Day—raucously repetitious and transactional. He has never glimpsed his own shadow. He doesn’t know it exists.
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Lance Morrow was the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His work focused on the moral and ethical dimensions of public events, including developments regarding freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and political correctness on American campuses, with a view to the future consequences of such suppressions.
