I recently consumed a column by Intercept writer Peter Maass titled “Dark essays by White House staffer are the intellectual source code of Trumpism.”
The target of his invective was Michael Anton, strategic communications director for President Trump’s National Security Council. Last September, Anton wrote a widely read column under the pen name Publius Decius Mus titled “The Flight 93 Election” for the Claremont Institute Review of Books, an intellectually rigorous conservative periodical. It is an excellent exposition of our nation’s condition today, and if you have not already read it, I suggest you do so now.
But Maass saw in it nothing but stupid conspiracy theories and absurd analogies, to wit:
