Midnight in Washington Comment Thread

[NJCher]

1. this paragraph that Adam Schiff writes

said so much to me. It is about Trump and how he has been so successful at endangering our democracy. Here is the paragraph:

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What made this man so dangerous? What had he done to the country? How, in three short years, had he been able to so completely remake his own party, get it to abandon its own ideology, get my friends and colleagues to surrender themselves to his obvious immorality? How had he caused us to question ourselves, our values, our commitment to democracy, what the country even stood for? How had he been able to convince so many of our fellow citizens that his views were the truth, and that they should believe him no matter how obvious the lies?

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After I read this paragraph, I realized that as much as we loathe trump, he does have a special kind of genius. It is the kind of "genius" that is the opposite of what we think of as good. Notice how Adam packs so much into this paragraph. He obviously has thought about this a great deal, because he covers all the bases, from corrupting others to convincing people that the trump way is the truth.

As a writing teacher, I say this is a succinct summary of why trump is so dangerous, but it does so by asking questions.