Michael Gerson
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Trump's destructive nationalismFeb 29, 2016 12:00 am - The main focus of Donald Trump's media coverage has been his populist disdain for elites. But his main focus has often been a strident version of American nationalism. ...
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The moral insight of 'Mockingbird'Feb 24, 2016 12:00 am - At a time when politics has veered toward division and exclusion, it is somehow fitting that Harper Lee, the apostle of empathy, made her exit. After the success of her...
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The politics of the middle fingerFeb 22, 2016 12:00 am - At first, in the summer of 2015, it seemed like a joke. Then a novelty. Then a bubble that must surely burst. Then a spectacle, overshadowing all the earnestness and exp...
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Replacing Scalia will take an epic skirmishFeb 16, 2016 12:00 am - A public official can fight to expand the power and prerogatives of his office with skill and cunning. Defending the prerogatives of other officials, in another branch o...
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Trump an alpha on the riseFeb 14, 2016 12:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. - As Donald Trump's GOP opponents descend on South Carolina, they are running smack into a phenomenon. In this state, Trump is riding a wave of adulation ...
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Adding obscenity to Trump's dishonest populismFeb 09, 2016 12:00 am - When the Watergate tapes were released, some Americans were dismayed at the many "expletives deleted" that Richard Nixon employed in private conversation. But as histori...
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The American Dream has not been stolenFeb 03, 2016 12:00 am - There is one issue on which the whole ideological range of campaign 2016 seems to agree. "The American dream is dead," says Donald Trump. "For many, the American dream h...
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Michael Gerson: Trump's politics of prideJan 29, 2016 4:30 am - WASHINGTON - Of all Donald Trump's political skills, perhaps the most impressive is his ability to persuade people to support him by suspending their deepest, lifelong b...
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The GOP needs both Trump and Cruz to fallJan 20, 2016 12:00 am - The outbreak of hostilities between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz may not be edifying, but it is clarifying. Cruz represents the arrival of Tea Party ideology at the presid...
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Obama promised hope; he brought rageJan 15, 2016 12:00 am - Now let us praise laundry lists. Every year at State of the Union time, the president and his staff say the speech will not include them. But the laundry won't keep trac...