The Personal vs. The Institutional

Herb Bowie
Nov 1 · 7 min read
Pillars Outside of the US Supreme Court Building | credit: istock/drnadig

Trump as Person Writ Large

In some ways we can think of the Trump presidency as the ultimate triumph of the personal perspective over the institutional outlook.

For Donald Trump, of course, everything is personal, and all institutions are disposable. Personal loyalty to Trump is deemed to be more important than loyalty to the office, or to the party, or to…

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Herb Bowie

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