In his absorbing new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey calls the Trump presidency a “forest fire” that is doing serious damage to the country’s norms and traditions.“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Comey writes. “His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”New York Times
Comey wrote a thesis on the existential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who believed that Christians should “enter the political realm” to combat wrongdoing. On Twitter, where Comey has published landscape photographs that serenely confirm his belief in natural order, he even used Niebuhr’s name as his alias The Guardian