As the nominee's speech made clear, the Republicans have become a party of terror, not of ideas. Trump's ascent merely ratifies the notion that has long animated the conservative movement: that a population sufficiently engorged on imaginary fears will forfeit rational thought for the cleansing powers of wrath.
Friday, July 22, 2016
From "Trump's Credo: The Only Thing is Fear Itself" by Steve Almond
I saw this today on Boston public radio station WBUR's website for Cognoscenti:
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