Friday, June 29, 2018

How Much?

How much power will a president with such tenuous claim to it get to wield? Donald Trump barely won the White House, under circumstances — a tainted opponent, three million fewer votes than she received, James Comey’s moral vanity and Russia’s amoral exertions — that raise serious questions about how many Americans yearned to see him there. But he’s virtually assured of appointing as many judges to the Supreme Court as each of his three predecessors did and could reshape Americans’ lives even more significantly. In his heart of hearts, he doesn’t give a damn about rolling back abortion rights. Yet this man of all men — a misogynist, a philanderer, a grabber-by-the-you-know-what — may be the end of Roe v. Wade. It's the craziest dissonance. The cruelest, too.

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