Trump wants to 'murder the very idea of truth,' but impeachment would make him a 'martyr,' says conservative critic by jonward11
A prominent conservative critic of President Trump argues in a new book that the destructive style of the real estate tycoon turned politician is a threat to democracy.
But Wehner argued that while Trump’s authoritarian instincts have been restrained by our institutions, the Trumpian style of politics and behavior is a virus that could prove deeply harmful to the American democratic system if it spreads. “I think where [Trump] really has hurt the country badly is in our civic and political culture,” Wehner said. “The avalanche of lies, the attacks on truth, the dehumanization, the cruelty, the crudity, this whole style of politics, the way that he’s inflaming the public, the way that he is creating almost an epistemological anarchy — this idea that truth is whatever you decide is in your interest — that, I think, has real long-term effects on the country.
But, Wehner said, “he’s not going to be removed from office so the question is not so much from my perspective whether it helps or hurts the Democrats politically, whether they go forward with this, but whether it inflicts the kind of trauma on the country that is unnecessary and does more damage because we know how this is going to end.”Wehner’s book is only partly about Trump. It is, first of all, a plea to the American people not to give up on politics.
He said that evangelical leaders such as “Franklin Graham or Jerry Falwell Jr., or Eric Metaxas, or Robert Jeffress … are essentially cheerleaders for Donald Trump.”
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