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America is not Weimar. We have not lost a World War or been forced to pay war debt; we’ve had 250 years of democracy, not 25; Trump isn’t Hitler, and

There’s a nearby possible world in which even minor missteps had much deadlier consequences. Suppose Ross Douthat is right that Trump’s incompetence only accounts for about 20,000 American deaths. In

This is an interesting essay—really an applied ethics paper—by @RameshPonnuru and @McCormickProf: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/10/19/voting-for-life/It makes three claims to which I'd like to offer some friendly phil

I think @DouthatNYT is largely right here. But his main caveat—“Who are you going to believe, my stats or your lying eyes?”—seems a bit understated. Because, unlike the countries Ross