The only moral puzzle Trump raises is whether morality is transactional or not. And if it is, is there anything truly moral in that?https://t.co/q5i0w1ecNc pic.twitter.com/KqiM5lEeBw
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 2, 2020
“Do not even the heathens do as much?”
(Hunt: morality is not about power, but powerlessness.)
I think Trump is a product of the modernist pretense that all of knowable reality must or even can be known and adhered to through the methodology of science which, in turn, is only a product of the methodology of mathematics. If you take that as your only admitted to standard of evidence you will conclude that truth is relative,or unavailable or the product of social consensus or some other such formulation and so a lie is as good as the truth if it will get you what you want. One side of our politics operates out of that last law of modernism, the other one maintains some semblance of morality, itself a product of the reality that we experience.
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