Donald Trump has become more dangerous
As awful as it was, CNN’s town hall did the country a service by revealing the threat he presents
And so American politics came to this: the day after a jury concluded in a civil case that Donald Trump had committed sexual abuse and then defamed his victim, he preened on national television as the front-runner for the presidential nomination of the party of family values and law and order, of American greatness and American pride. Mr Trump’s gall should not surprise anyone, of course, not after his success for seven years in defining Republican values down. Yet what a degrading spectacle it was.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The Trump show”
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