Column: Trump wins and it’s a dark night for America’s soul
LA TimesA convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender is returning to the White House. Exit polls showed by a crushing 73% to 25% that voters saw Trump and not Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate who could bring about change — which Americans desperately seek despite an economy that, by many measures, is firing on all cylinders. A more dangerous world as Trump coddles foreign dictators, severs critical overseas alliances and enables aggression like Russia’s rape and pillage of Ukraine. A not-insignificant amount of Trump’s support is predicated on that notion that his outrageous rhetoric and belligerent policy proposals are merely performative — Trump being Trump, to use the shorthand. Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” And so, with Trump’s restoration, it will be.
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