Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“If you’re struggling to understand how anyone could vote for Donald Trump after his behavior on Jan. 6, 2021, I suggest you read Michael Anton’s essay in the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016. Its title is ‘The Flight 93 Election,’ after the plane that was driven into the ground by 9/11 terrorists when its passengers rebelled and made a run for the cockpit. That’s essentially what Anton was urging conservatives to do, even at the risk of crashing the plane and killing everyone on board. That might seem overwrought to you, as it does to me. But the Flight 93 mindset remains prevalent among Trump’s supporters, and it’s worth understanding why they feel that way — though people who feel that way should also understand why the Flight 93 approach is unlikely to work.” (10/31/24)