“This is a more complicated political puzzle than it appears because it occurs at a time when the circumstances of life in the United States have become more disappointing – for reasons which most voters find inexplicable – than could have been imagined at the time when Soviet Communism collapsed. The tolerance of Trump’s extraordinary abuse of power has as much to do with what I would call the Great Disillusionment – the collapse of the post-Cold War dream of a new world order based on personal liberty – as on anything he may claim to have done. Instead of … Continue reading Putin can subvert the West because we have lost our moral purpose