A One-Paragraph Defense of Trump
With an irked chaser.
All “public servants” deserve a presumption against obituary praise.
Self-proclaimed moral superiority is no qualification for public office.
Demonizing war skeptics is wrong and wrongheaded.
Trump 2024 would be a harsh punishment—but perhaps a just one.
Image: Plato's Allegory of the Cave, by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem (1604, Albertina, Vienna).
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