The Psychic Sickness Afflicting Tens of Millions of Our Compatriots

Psychic sickness — a pandemic of it — may be the most apt short explanation of why America is at risk of electing as president a man who, as law professor Sherylin Ifill puts it, is “so fundamentally inclined toward theft, mendacity, cruelty, and criminality that we scarcely absorb the breadth of his transgressions.”

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