What should be the objective of our political discourse? In a recent writing in Discourse, Russ Greene argues that our political “discourse has turned toward nihilism, where nothing really matters except winning.” A great example of this is the leader of the Republican party, Donald Trump, going all-out in the support of illiberal primary candidates who are election deniers, and, in turn, the Democratic Party’s cynical support of those same candidates in the hopes they will make the weakest challengers to their own candidates in the recent November elections.
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