David Frum: “To the extent the decision is up to Trump, the United States that his speech celebrated on July 4 will exist no more.”
“Trump’s grotesque botch of the 250th anniversary of ‘We hold these truths’ aptly demonstrates how far his leadership has already pushed the United States away from its noblest past. Americans may not wish to acknowledge what Trump has done to their standing in the world. Such denial does not change reality. Norma Desmond’s last lover—and doomed narrator—delivers a verdict on the fading star’s descent from delusion into madness: ‘The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her.'”
“Americans have not clung to their dream nearly desperately enough, but they too are now enfolded in something dark and diminished.”
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