{"id":326,"date":"2017-04-06T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=326"},"modified":"2017-04-08T04:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T04:13:42","slug":"new-yorkers-adam-gopnik-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/new-yorkers-adam-gopnik-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Loses It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Always entertaining when recounting his adventures as a Lower Slobbovian living in Paris, Adam Gopnik has lost his appeal since moving to America. Of late he has sidled off into political commentary, a field for which he is as richly equipped as a blind racing tout. In his most recent column in The New Yorker<\/em>, he goes completely bonkers and actually calls for a coup against President Donald Trump. I won’t reproduce the most lurid bits of his imagining\u2014read it yourself here<\/a>\u2014but the send-off paragraph is enough to give you a general idea:<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most tragic sins against democracy, to which we have already become accustomed, are Trump\u2019s lies. When you have a President who lies as he breathes, for whom lying is simply the normal way of dealing with any difficulty, democratic governance becomes close to impossible. We all forgive fantasy, storytelling, self-justification, faulty memory, mythological insistence. America has survived them all. But telling malicious and scurrilous lies without remorse or regret is a venom that paralyzes the entire political system, for the simple reason that democratic politics are really just a proceduralized form of argument\u2014my evidence here, yours there; our side\u2019s claim like this, yours like that\u2014and when lies are the first premise, the back-and-forth of rational contention becomes impossible. No sane response is possible to an egregious lie except silence, and silence lets the lie win. Trump accuses Barack Obama of wiretapping him<\/a>, an obvious lie, but the lie becomes part of the fabric of the event, to be adjudicated rather than exploded. He blithely says that he thinks Susan Rice<\/a>, Obama\u2019s national-security adviser, may have committed a crime, and Rice, playing by rules that were suspended three months ago, says that she \u201cwon\u2019t dignify\u201d the remark with a counter-remark. The appeal to dignity is the classic appeal of those who live in an honor society where conduct and credibility are assumed to be inseparable. We are three months past dignity now. That\u2019s the tragedy, and it has already happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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