Mitt Romney is the fixed point revealing the Republicans’ slide
A new biography shows how far that slide has gone
So a politician in the evening of his career, with a vast family, a rich spiritual life and great wealth to fall back upon, summoned the nerve to declare what his peers muttered privately: that a man who was obviously unfit to be president was, in fact, unfit to be president. Does the courage of Mitt Romney in standing up to Donald Trump really say something wonderful about Mr Romney, or just something dismal about American democracy?
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “All conviction”
United States October 28th 2023
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