The attempts to take down Donald Trump are quite real, and they are having significant consequences for the body politic.
They’re coming from nearly every major institution in the United States — from our universities to the media, from academia to the judiciary. It’s happening everywhere.
The real question is, is this really about Donald Trump as a person? Is it really about Trump, with all of his myriad foibles, mistakes, and craziness? Or is it about something broader?
I would contend that it’s about something broader, that the elite institutions in our society have basically decided that if anyone remotely Right-wing were ever to enter the presidency again, it would be an existential threat to their vision of a utopian future for the United States.
Every year, the American Political Science Association publishes a survey ranking all the American presidents, dating back to…
