Donald Trump Archives - Ethics & Public Policy Center
The Amazing, Horrifying Age of Exaggeration
Hyperbole was more fun in Mencken’s age. Today it’s become ugly and fanatical, a weapon in a holy war.
Donald Trump Ruined Conservatism. Don’t Let Him Ruin Patriotism.
The president discredits everything he touches. His poisonous form of patriotism is a danger to our civic health.
Evangelicals Made a Bad Bargain With Trump
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.
Now Comes the Reckoning
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.
How to Win a Debate With a Bully
Joe Biden should simply name what is true and what most Americans intuit about the president: He is a terribly broken man.
What a Senate Acquittal in an Impeachment Trial Will Mean
If, as seems all but certain, President Trump is not removed by the Senate, the standard about what is impeachable conduct will have been ratcheted higher.
On Being Too Nice in Politics
Mitt Romney’s declaration of independence from Donald Trump as he takes his seat in the U.S. Senate has been illuminating — more for the responses than the op-ed itself.
I’m Glad I Got Booed at CPAC
What happened to me at CPAC is the perfect illustration of the collective experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — but now we’re made to feel like interlopers.
For Republicans, a Reckoning Is Coming
In the aftermath of Doug Jones’s victory, many Republicans are saying they “dodged a bullet” because Democrats would have used “Senator” Moore to discredit the entire Republican party. Their relief is understandable but premature.
Seeing Trump Through a Glass, Darkly
In our present moment, truth, including truth that unsettles us, has far too often become subordinate to justifying and defending at all costs our own, often unsound, preconceptions.
