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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Why were so many powerful people in America, a country whose civic culture is steeped in resistance to tyranny, so willing to abase themselves and their institutions?
That’s the question at the heart of Jacob Weisberg’s important new book, “Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era.” It’s an inverted version of John F. Kennedy’s “Profiles in Courage,” offering character studies of eight people who gave in to Trump despite surely knowing better. Reading it made me wonder if there’s something about America today that selects for spinelessness at the highest levels.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/opinion/institutions-power-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share