Trump’s Corruption Stains, From Texas to Maine

When I was a much younger man and had figured out far more about the world than I know now, there was an old Republican saying that appealed to me: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

Some of you may remember the source. It’s a condensed version of a very similar line from Barry Goldwater’s 1964 convention speech in Daly City, Calif., a moment when an ideological revolution captured the........

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