'Bolder than Nixon': Conservative flags secret behind success of Trump's 'corruption'
If "Democracy dies in darkness," as The Washington Post declares, so, too, does authoritarianism, according to conservative columnist Bill Kristol in The Bulwark.
In his latest column, Kristol cited House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) justification for why President Donald Trump can't possibly be accused of "wrongdoing": "The reason that many people refer to the Bidens as the ‘Biden crime family’ is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains, in the back rooms. They were trying to conceal it. . . Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open. They’re not trying to conceal anything. . . . President Trump has had nothing to hide. He’s very up front about it," Johnson said.
Kristol called this defense "an admission" of Trump's "open corruption and lawlessness," but argued that it's "far more dangerous" than the cloak-and-dagger shenanigans of, say, Richard Nixon....