Can There Be Mercy in Trump’s America?

May 21st, 2018 | 8 min read

Early last week our president, when responding to a sheriff’s comment about a member of a violent immigrant gang, said that:

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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