“An active assault on virtue”: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism

I have been banging on this drum for a while: the idea that the problems America faces in this moment aren’t simply matters of institutions, law or economics, but matters of basic moral virtue. No matter how well-constructed a society’s institutions are, they will rot without a level of citizen virtue to back them up. MAGA is an assault not simply on vulnerable people, but on the idea of morality itself. This article conveys the idea better than I could.