Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Republican Tolerance for Despotism Keeps Rising

A party of enablers, sycophants, cowards and sellouts.

November 11, 2018 at 6:11 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Josh Hawley, the newly elected Trumpist from Missouri.
Photographer: Neela Satam/Bloomberg

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Any other Republican president — Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush — would have campaigned in the final week of the midterm elections on the booming economy, unemployment under 4 percent, rising real wages and a stock market up 25 percent.

Donald Trump instead chose to close with racist rants about hordes of terrorists and brown people about to invade the Rio Grande. A man of dark instincts and impulses, he is incapable of uplift and hope; he traffics in fear and hate.