Plato on “The Measure of a Man”

To the degree that Americans are still capable of reason, Plato’s words here should be incredibly meaningful.

The United States presidency has seen a few bad people in its 250-year history, but none whose character was anywhere nearly as depraved as Donald Trump.

It’s unrealistic to expect every U.S. president to be a Washington, or an Eisenhower, or a Lincoln, or a Carter, but how in hell did we wind up here?