Demagogue that he is and that he’s toyed with becoming since well before he ran for president, Donald Trump used his June 2 rant against looting and thuggery after George Floyd’s murder to bang the drum for a civil war that he’s been toying with. But how pure was the republic before he stepped into the spotlight?
Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale University and a former columnist at the New York Daily News. Sleeper is also the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.
ALL POSTS BY Jim Sleeper
September 27, 2017Does Trump understand the true meaning of patriotism more than those who take a knee?
May 11, 2017Trump's naked contempt for civic culture is what's really threatening our republic. To save it, we need to rescue our civic wellsprings.
March 28, 2017The president wants liberties for himself that he doesn’t grant to others.
January 3, 2017Campus witch hunts have nurtured the very threat to our free speech they allegedly sought to root out.
November 9, 2016Both parties are to blame and it has cost all of us a republic.
