The Scarlet Letter A

“Given Trump’s increasingly explicit rhetoric about shifting the chief executive position toward authoritarianism, it seems difficult to understand how he’s still running even with President Biden in early polling — or, in some cases, leading him. A bevy of possibilities emerges: Is the media failing to inform voters? Are Trump-supportive voters tuning out media that’s reporting on his intentions? Is he simply seen as the lesser of two evils?” Or is it a worse possibility that seems more and more likely to be the case? WaPo (Gift Article): A lot of Americans embrace Trump’s authoritarianism.