America hurtles down an open elevator shaft during Trump presidency

America’s commander-in-chief has always been a brash and bullying liar. As of last week, though, he has become a gruesome threat to the country he insists he loves.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump, pictured Oct. 5, 20202, departing the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. It looks increasingly likely that the only way Mr. Trump will leave the White House is strapped to a chair and carried out like Hannibal Lecter, writes Michael Harris. Official White House Photograph by Joyce N. Boghosian

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 12, 2020

HALIFAX—I have to write about Donald Trump again. To borrow a phrase from Joseph Conrad, it is the fascination of the abomination. America has walked into an open elevator shaft during the Trump presidency, and has been hurtling downwards ever since. No honour, no duty, no class. Just a countr...

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