Republicans Have Chosen Nihilism

[BidenPresident]

By Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum and a contributing Opinion writer, served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.


Over the past half-century, one of the books that most electrified conservatives was Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind.” Bloom, a political philosopher, warned of the dangers posed by moral relativism and nihilism, of “accepting everything and denying reason’s power.”

Yet today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom. We see that most clearly in the right’s embrace of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement he represents. Mr. Trump is cruel and remorseless, compulsive and vindictive, an accomplished conspiracy theorist. He delights in inflaming hatreds and shattering moral codes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

 

[Nordberg]

Trump is immature, selfish, and has no respect for any American institutions including the election system, the courts and the laws. He is a terrible person and a serious threat to the continuation of the American system.

 

[BidenPresident]

Trump is immature, selfish, and has no respect for any American institutions including the election system, the courts and the laws. He is a terrible person and a serious threat to the continuation of the American system.

Agree.
And his current trial in New York is going poorly. Harassing the person who decides your case is a stupid strategy.

 

[QP!]

Trump is immature, selfish, and has no respect for any American institutions including the election system, the courts and the laws. He is a terrible person and a serious threat to the continuation of the American system.

He says it in speech after public speech.

He ADMIRES how much control Xi, Putin, Erdogan, Kim and Orban have over their systems of government and population. They get praise that no Western leader ever does from him, for that reason. He admires how they imposed their will and took control, and destroyed any resistance.

That is not veiled. There is no hyperbole in what i say there. He is openly admiring of them because they have so much power and control, with no negative regard for how they got that control and power.

 

[BidenPresident]

He says it in speech after public speech.

He ADMIRES how much control Xi, Putin, Erdogan, Kim and Orban have over their systems of government and population. They get praise that no Western leader ever does from him, for that reason. He admires how they imposed their will and took control, and destroyed any resistance.

That is not veiled. There is no hyperbole in what i say there. He is openly admiring of them because they have so much power and control, with no negative regard for how they got that control and power.

Trump has always praised the world's worst dictators.