This week, I had the pleasure of sitting down for a cordial debate with Sam Harris, host of the “Making Sense” podcast, to discuss the question of the hour: Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris.
The conversation was moderated by Bari Weiss of The Free Press. Sam Harris is, of course, an incredibly intelligent person. He’s also a person with a core set of values. He freely acknowledged his own discomfort with many of Kamala Harris‘ positions in the campaign. But in the end, he said that he would vote for Harris because of one dispositive argument: Trump could not be president, thanks to his antics surrounding Election 2020.
I took the opposing view.
While freely acknowledging that Trump’s behavior between Nov. 4, 2020, and Jan. 6, 2021, was wrong, I argued that the constitutional checks and balances had held and would continue to do so. What is more, I argued,…
