Andrew Sullivan

Governor Clinton has been asked directly.

You were asked this morning to respond to a very specific allegation, which you very strongly denied.

And I was just asking a more general question, because I think it goes to the point of character.

Well, thank you so much for that really very kind introduction.

There are many ways in which you could answer that question, I suppose.

I mean, you could talk about...

the way in which the United States has shifted, which I think was inevitable at some point, towards a more 19th century position in the world, which he sort of moved us towards.

But I think that could have happened and was happening in a slightly more responsible way before him.

And maybe he made it all that much more obvious and drastic.

But that's changed.

That's a change.

I think America is going to have a different

perspective on the world, a different attitude towards the world than we have had in the past.

The other thing I would say that just simply in terms of the culture, I do think that he's introduced an indecency

into our public culture that is new and hideous.

The celebration of cruelty, the denigration of your opponents, the use of language and rhetoric that's truly disgusting.

The fact that someone can be shot dead like Rob Reiner was, and he will come and say, good, I'm glad that Trump hater is dead.

I mean, that kind of stuff, we've never heard from a president before.

We've always heard from presidents before.

in moments of difficulty or crisis, an attempt to unify us in some way.