Resistance lawyer George Conway, now running for a congressional seat in Manhattan, is peddling one of the worst ideas you will hear: that America after Donald Trump needs a new round of “reconstruction.” This sort of thing failed miserably on a national political level in 2024, but even if it is still a warmly received message in upscale deep-blue districts, Conway’s ideas represent both a misreading of history and an ominously anti-American strain of elite anti-democratic sentiment. Indeed, the persistence of this approach in the face of its rejection by the national electorate makes plain the anti-democratic thinking afoot here.
Conway hasn’t been entirely clear what he means by “reconstruction,” but he tells Time:
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