Conservatism Reaches a Dead End
The Atlantic The Conservative Cult of Victimhood Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters. January 11, 2021 Shutterstock / The Atlantic Many of President Donald Trump’s crooked schemes are so ill-thought that even his intimates cannot take them seriously. Asking Russia to hack your opponent’s emails during a press conference? Who would do that? He must have been joking! So it was on January 6. What Trump was trying to achieve that day was so flat-out delusional as to defy belief. Trump had gotten it i...