Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you\u2019d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we\u2019re not like him \u2014 that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.<\/p>\n
But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself \u2014 overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.<\/p>\n
But in the anti-Trump echo chamber, that\u2019s not how most people were thinking. Led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, they avoided the hard, complex problem of how to set boundaries around militias. Instead, they pontificated on the easy question not actually on the table: Should we have a massive invasion of Iran?<\/p>\n
A great cry went up from the echo chamber. We\u2019re on the brink of war! Trump is leading us to more endless wars in the Middle East! We\u2019re on the precipice of total chaos! This was not the calibrated language of risk and reward. It was fear-stoking apocalyptic language. By being so overwrought and exaggerated, the echo chamber drowned out any practical conversation about how to stabilize the Middle East so we could have another righteous chorus of \u201cDonald Trump is a monster!\u201d<\/p>\n
This is Trump\u2019s ultimate victory. Every argument on every topic is now all about him.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This is Trump\u2019s ultimate victory. Every argument on every topic is now all about him,” writes @nytdavidbrooks<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/HOrfdbKyDv<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n