John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. Find him @editorialboard.bsky.social .
Its vision of “unity” has always been a product of makebelieve.
Voters have entered a new stage in which they are remembering what the country was like the last time a demagogue was president.
They can’t win, but they can sap your will to make the world better.
They ask us to choose God or trans people. Don’t fall for it.
It was a signal to believers of “the one true religion.”
That’s what you need to know.
Newspeople are trying to appease Donald Trump by manufacturing a middle position that seems politically neutral. It’s not going to work.
Calls for her to step aside are laughable in the extreme.
It should do more than defeat Trump.
They can’t trust him enough to control him.