“It was the kind of glaringly false claim about crime in the capital that Mr. Trump has made repeatedly since August, when he deployed the National Guard and took federal control of the police force.”

“the reckoning that often happens when mortality catches up with the search for immortality.

The Musée Napoléon returned to just the Louvre. Stalingrad is now Volgograd. Hitler’s plazas died with the man.

After all, just a couple of keystrokes of history separate famous from infamous.”

“The disappearance of the informal gate-keeping function once performed by conservative luminaries such as William F. Buckley Jr. is probably permanent.

In the absence of such authority, informed argument exists alongside phony outrage, profiteering, self-aggrandizement…”