I’ll try not to take David Frum’s new piece on the Russia-Trump connection too personally, especially now that I’ve spent the week off-Twitter, chilling in the English countryside where I grew up, and generally unwinding with my family. And this isn’t a full-on Weekly Dish, because of Thanksgiving.
But a few thoughts. I agree with almost everything David writes — which he does with his usual concision and pellucidity. There is no question that Trump had countless conflicts of interest in Russia, with his Moscow hotel plans high among them, and had been money laundering for Russian oligarchs for years. No question that he was absolutely willing to accept Russia’s — or any country’s — illicit support, and no doubt he actually asked for it. I saw him do it, on national television, in the campaign. We all did. [More…]
This is Andrew Sullivan, who I’d describe as a radical centrist. Heterodox critic of both sides. (*)
People like Claire Lehman are asking if it’s the case that the Left went crazy after the 2016 election and the Right went crazy after election 2020. It sure seems some Republican pollies are going weird-crazy. It would help if more Democratic pollies would admit their own weird-crazy conspiracy theories. As someone said, more or less: the party in power is smug and arrogant; the party out of power is crazy.
[Claire on Quillette]
