President Trump

I come to you today with good news and bad news for Donald Trump's most loyal supporters. The good news is that liberals have stopped comparing him to Adolf ...

[2024 presidential election](https://thehill.com/social-tags/2024-presidential-election/) [Donald Trump](https://thehill.com/social-tags/donald-trump/) [Maureen Dowd](https://thehill.com/people/maureen-dowd/) [New York Times](https://thehill.com/social-tags/new-york-times/) [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://thehill.com/social-tags/russian-invasion-of-ukraine/) [Vladimir Putin](https://thehill.com/people/vladimir-putin/) [Vladimir Putin](https://thehill.com/social-tags/vladimir-putin/) [White House](https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/) [White House](https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/) [Opinion](https://thehill.com/opinion/) [White House](https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/) [See All](https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/) And that — even if it never occurred to Maureen Dowd or to her liberal fans — is also a threat to democracy. I don’t like a whole bunch of things about Trump — from his dishonesty and his out-of-control ego, all the way to his That’s because a lot of liberals see anyone on “the other side” not simply as wrong or misguided, but as terminally stupid, even dangerous. Columnists are granted a lot of leeway in what they write — and that’s how it should be. And now [she’s telling us](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/putin-trump-ukraine.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur) why Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are two of a kind: “Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, long entwined, continue on vile parallel paths: They would rather destroy their countries than admit they have lost.” [corrupt Joker](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/opinion/sunday/trump-capitol-attack.html)” and said he was “evil.” She has said he’s the “ [Kardashian](https://www.thewrap.com/maureen-dowd-calls-donald-trump-the-kardashian-of-politics-video/)” of the political world because of his ability to attract attention. To do so isn’t a sign of thoughtfulness. “They have each created a scrim of lies to justify lunatic personal ambition,” Dowd tells us. It’s a sign of laziness. This supposed insight, linking the former president to the tyrant who invaded a neighboring country, comes not from some fringe left-wing website or from the faculty lounge of a progressive institution of higher learning, where you can’t get tenure unless you hate Donald Trump. The good news is that liberals have stopped comparing him to Adolf Hitler.