Smart People Fall For The Cult Of Trump With Journalist Virginia Heffernan

From Richard Dawkins to Larry Summers, brilliant minds get pulled in

Even Tucker Carlson, recently distancing himself from the Trump cult he defended nightly on cable news, reached for a word at odds with his own worldview. Asked what it felt like to spend a day in Donald Trump’s presence, the broadcaster called it a spell. Not metaphor. A literal spell, supernatural in nature, demonic in his framing.

My colleagues and I …