The Trump launderers: Making the disgraceful respectable
Let's pretend it's a jolly jape
Merry-Go-Round by Mark Gertler (1916)
Since the election of Donald Trump respectable men and women on the right, those very pillars of conservative society, who denounced the excesses of the left, have been excusing the authoritarianism of the right.
Their motives vary as do their styles. Power worship is in the mix, as is the desire to let extremism rip,…
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