Washington Post culture critic unhappy with Trump's anticipatory defense of his deportation policy

If only Trump let left-wing journalists have at him

Phillip Kennicott writes for the “Style” section of the Washington Post. I used to call that section of the paper the Post’s id.

It gives voice to the worst left-wing urges and impulses of the paper — those too “out there” to make it to the news section or even the op-ed page. Consider, for example, this piece, purportedly about a new baseball stadium, in which Kennicott cited “China and countries along the Persian Gulf” as “proving to an attentive developing world that top-down leadership is the best and most efficient route to prosperity.”

These days, almost any left-wing urge and impulse can make it to the Post’s news section. Thus, writers like Kennicott must delve deep to maintain the Style section’s id status.

Kennicott is up to the task in this article about Donald Trump.