He Is Us And We Are Him: Wir Sind Die Selbe

Many Americans identify with Trump’s cruelty and corruption and they like what they see

“For more Americans than not, and for many more evangelical Christians than not, Trump is the representative man of our time. His ethic is theirs. So are his corruptions. And for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, a nation of nations, the “last, best hope of earth,” this is quite a painful period. America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world. A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation. And it’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.”

That is a quote from a recent article in The Atlantic by Peter Wehner. His thoughts about the extraordinary number of Americans reveling in the abject lawlessness, cruelty, narcissism and un-American and un-democratic behavior of Donald Trump is also something I have been saying for years. Specifically, I wrote a piece more than four years ago called “Good Germ…