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Part Two of the Trilogy. Read Part One first if you have not: The Closing of the Sky.
In June of 2015, a man rode an escalator down. The proper study ascends. The shadow descends. He literally rode an escalator down into public life, and the country has been in his shadow ever since.
This is the most direct dispatch The Vertical has published. It is measured strictly against the documented record — the consent decrees, the court verdicts, the impeachments, the felony convictions, and the man's own words, in his own voice, about his own soul. There is no malice in the writing and no flattery. The standing standard has been held to its sharpest edge.
The diagnosis is Jungian. The measure is Marcus Aurelius. The record is the courts', the press's, and the man's own. The trilogy closes in Part Three with the war.
Read it carefully. Sit with it. Then send it to one person who needs the standard returned to public life.
— The Architect
