The United States is not quite an empire, but one little mind was on full display during President Trump’s speech this past weekend to the Conservative Political Action Conference. It was two hours of Trump unplugged, unleashed, uncensored, unreconstructed and unhinged. As the organizing structure of the speech, Trump skipped from enemy to enemy — a taunt here, a mock there. Trump’s CPAC speech was a bold assertion that he has learned nothing — absolutely nothing — during his first two years in office. The first president, George Washington, made dignity the defining commitment of his political life.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 22:30 UTC