Trump: The Absolver in Chief

Like millions of other voters, I've been trying to understand Donald Trump's narrow Electoral College victory. There are many reasons, and writers far more thoughtful than I have put them forward.

But I think there is another, more visceral attraction. Trump lifts all guilt. Guilt implies that each of us has some power to change things. But Trump has made us all either victims or villains. And in so doing, he's absolved us of all our sins.

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