Christopher Caldwell is as good as it gets on the American right. No analyst is smarter, more informed about the world, or as capable of weaving historical, cultural, and economic evidence into fresh accounts of how and why we've ended up in our deranged, and deranging, present. He was the best writer at the old Weekly Standard in the times Before Trump, and he's the best writer now affiliated with the rabidly MAGA Claremont Institute. But even Homer nods'and even Caldwell can lose his way in trying to make sense of the senselessness unfolding all around us. It's clear to me that this is what's happened in his latest column for the U.S. Edition of The Spectator. Much of the essay, 'The End of Trumpism,' I admire and agree with. Caldwell has never shown an interest in serving as a propagandist for any cause or politician, and here he doesn't hesitate to hit Trump hard for various moves over the past 14 months, including the ruinous global tariffs and risky bombing of Iran's nuclear...
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