It has been nine years, one month, and twenty-five days since Trump’s first election. Later this month, it will be the ninth year since he was first inaugurated. By any calculation, he has battered, besieged, and beleaguered this country; by any measure, he is the most contemptible man to hold federal executive office.

Individual rights, freedom from interference, free markets in labor and capital, limited government, property rights, a spontaneous and dynamic social order, and advancement of social justice. Each tenet is presumptively held and supported, within a liberal democratic society that recognizes all persons of equal moral worth.