The Chaotic First 100 Days of Trump 2.0

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To the Editor:

Re “Trump’s Strength Is His Greatest Weakness,” by David Brooks (column, April 25):

Mr. Brooks is overthinking again. In his column, he praises President Trump’s energy, and implicitly compares him to the military grand strategists Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz.

A more apt comparison for Mr. Trump’s behavior in his first 100 days as president this term would be with players of violent video games, in which the challenge is simply to slaughter as many opponents as possible as quickly as possible.

It’s you against the enemy. No gray area. Shoot instantly and move on. Otherwise, you are destroyed, and the game is over.

Mr. Trump’s unprecedented onslaught against so many opponents does not result from something he possesses but from something he lacks: a conscience, which is superfluous to video game warfare.

From this perspective, Mr. Trump’s supposedly astounding “energy” is unremarkable. Many of us could have done the same — if we lacked a conscience, if we did not debate whether or not it was actually in the best interests of our nation to undermine the power of the judiciary, to encourage tyranny abroad or to endanger the health of the world economy.

Mr. Trump’s singular accomplishment is not “verve,” as Mr. Brooks puts it, but the utter absence of a moral compass.

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On a warm June night in 2018, more than a dozen members of Canada’s 2018 World Junior hockey team bypassed a long line of waiting customers, had their IDs checked and were funneled into Jack’s Bar in London, Ont. They wore T-shirts and several wore backward baseball caps. Some gave others fist bumps, and one draped his arm around another’s shoulder. Inside the bar, a group of the players gathered at a corner of a long counter, just beyond a packed dance floor, appearing to order drinks. Seven years later, five members of that team sat in a stuffy wood-paneled courtroom just a few blocks...

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