The Democrats' Gorsuch dilemma

Whether by instinct or through good advice, Trump may have hit on a perfect move to frustrate liberals' goals

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
(Image credit: ZACH GIBSON/AFP/Getty Images)

It's almost like he knows what he's doing.

A few days ago President Trump threw the country wantonly into crisis by ordering an unnecessary and needlessly cruel ban on travel to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries. Massive protests and furious condemnation from the Democratic opposition followed, along with resistance from within the federal bureaucracy. A revivified left declared their determination to stop an incipient dictatorship by any means necessary.

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Noah Millman

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.