"National humiliation is long in gestation and violent in resolution. The president is playing with fire. To say, as he did, that the elected representatives of American democracy are worthless and that the people are everything is to lay the foundations of totalitarianism. It is to say that democratic institutions are irrelevant and all that counts is the great leader and the masses he arouses. To speak of “American carnage” is to deploy the dangerous lexicon of blood, soil and nation. Trump’s outrageous claims have a purpose: to destroy rational thought. Americans are going to have to fight for their civilization and the right to ask why against the banal belligerence of Trump."
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