The movement that now controls the Republican Party is committed to a suite of ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with the Constitution and the Republic that the founders created under its auspices."Read this wonderful analysis by K. Stewart:“The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism;” & C. Fredrickson, president emerita of the American Constitution Society. "Mr. Trump’s presidency was not the cause of this anti-democratic movement in American politics, but the consequence. He is the chosen instrument, not of God, but of today’s Christian nationalists, their political allies and funders, and the movement’s legal apparatus. Mr. Trump serves a movement that will cynically praise the Constitution in order to destroy it, and of which Mr. Barr has made himself a hero.
At www.nytimes.com
