The Democrats May Go Noisily Into the Good Night, but They Are Going and Trump, on Balance, Was Right

The American people’s judgment was like Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman’s description of the human conscience: ‘powerful, peremptory, un-argumentative, irrational, minatory, and definitive.’

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President-elect Trump speaks at AmericaFest, December 22, 2024, at Phoenix. AP/Rick Scuteri

The majority of Americans who hold serious political opinions, and a much larger percentage of American political commentators than the comparatively small number that could be reasonably described as observing professional standards of nonpartisan fairness, have concluded that whatever Donald Trump’s failings, they do not disqualify him from another term as president, either in policy or ethical terms. 

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