But today, because of Mr. Trump’s repeated praise for President Vladimir Putin, Republican attitudes toward Russia are far more favorable. According to this narrative, the Republican Party will weather this storm and emerge in a modified but recognizable form. Nor are his private critics rushing to go public with their often mordant analyses of Mr. Trump’s movement. In the short term, there may well be a cost to challenging the ethnonationalist wing of the Republican Party. For many of us, Mr. Trump, Mr. Bannon and Mr. Moore represent the politics of dissolution and dehumanization, of resentment and enmity, of half-truths and anti-truths.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2017 18:22 UTC