[T]here seem to be more CRIMINALS in the Trump Administration than in the Caravan. - Bill Kristol

Isn't conservatism in part about resisting so-called new realities when you sense they might be questionable, even as people lecture you that you’ve got to get with the times?

I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone.

The rhetorical extremism, the winking at violence, the reveling in vulgarity, and the embrace of amoralism are not bugs but features of Trumpism. Intellectual and moral coarsening is both a condition and a consequence of the demagogue's success. Trumpism really does corrupt.