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    Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s moral corruption has proven infectious

    by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency Jan 06, 2021 3 minutes

    “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton

    The remarkable thing about this last grotesque chapter of Donald Trump’s presidency is how much he has proved Acton both wrong and right.

    Few axioms are more popular among pompously earnest pundits and politicians than Lord Acton’s line about power. Acton surely believed that power corrupts. His real indictment, however, wasn’t of the wielders of power, but of those who enabled them. He decried those who exempted

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