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Philosophy Then

Would Machiavelli Vote For Donald Trump?

Peter Adamson reads a modern Renaissance political manual.

One of the many puzzles of our current political moment is the enthusiastic support that bad men receive from good people. Donald Trump is nobody’s idea of a good person, except for Donald Trump’s. His personality is made up largely from four of the seven deadly sins of Christian tradition: greed, wrath, pride, and lust. Yet many conservative Christians in America count themselves among his staunchest adherents. They would probably not leave him alone with their daughters, but they don’t mind putting the country in his hands.

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