Has there ever been a presidential administration more deeply defined by the personality traits of the sitting president than this one?
America knows President Donald Trump well: His innate lack of empathy toward the weak, most recently demonstrated with his gutting of foreign food aid; a long history of racism, from his days as a redlining real estate mogul to his promotion of “birther” conspiracies to his presidential embrace of white nationalist supporters; a blithe contempt for the rule of law, which, like most rules, Trump thinks doesn’t apply to him.
All these traits are vividly on display with a new refugee policy that is at once racist, cruel and very likely illegal in how it’s being implemented. It’s also a repudiation of America’s long, proud stature as a beacon of hope to the

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