Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

by Miles Taylor

the greatest threat to American democracy in this century will come from within.

This isn’t happening to us; this is happening because of us.

“Afghanistan: How to Put America First—And Win!”

“doomsday org chart,”

Mass resignations will be made worse by mass recriminations.

like a dementia patient with a synaptic misfire.

Kelly retold the story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was “a very, very evil man.”

The sparkle of the dinner guests masked the craven artificiality that had brought them together—a desire to be something they were not. These were the lab-grown diamonds of American politics.

Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Pence would be remembered for an erect posture and flaccid conscience.