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Michael Gerson

Opinion writerWashington, D.C.

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To millennials, Trump isn’t attacking political correctness. He’s attacking tolerance.

  • Aug 15, 2016

Donald Trump must be looking for new ways to fail.

  • Aug 11, 2016

She seems to have drawn all the wrong lessons from a lifetime of scandal management.

  • Aug 8, 2016

If he continues on his current course for the next three months, Trump will surely derail the GOP.

  • Aug 4, 2016

The GOP nominee and his supporters are degrading the American story written by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Aug 1, 2016

I get that inspiration is not Hillary Clinton’s “thing,” but she missed a key moment to go after Donald Trump.

  • Jul 29, 2016

Donald Trump’s angry, secular message leaves an opening for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine to appeal to religious voters.

  • Jul 26, 2016

It is necessary to confront his unmasked contempt for American institutions.

  • Jul 22, 2016

It is particularly sad when good and decent people vouch for Trump’s character.

  • Jul 21, 2016

This is the story of the Republican National Convention platform so far.

  • Jul 18, 2016
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Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post. He is the author of “Heroic Conservatism” (HarperOne, 2007) and co-author of “City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era” (Moody, 2010). He appears regularly on the “PBS NewsHour,” “Face the Nation” and other programs. Gerson serves as senior adviser at One, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. Until 2006, Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as deputy assistant to the president and director of presidential speechwriting and assistant to the president for speechwriting and policy adviser.
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