jeremiad

This wasn't far from assessments CNN contributors made Friday morning following the ex-president and current felon's rambling jeremiad.

Then he launched into a jeremiad against “the modern woke feminists destroying every part of our society.”

In the 1960s, a surge in crash deaths, a series of Senate hearings, and the explosive publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader’s jeremiad against the car industry, led to the creation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the enactment of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and the establishment of road safety as a federal responsibility.

Those who have felt drawn to this controversy, and found summaries of the letter in some way attractive, should read the entire thing and ask themselves these questions: Is the conflict that bin Laden tried to incite—and that killed 3,000 of your fellow Americans—really worth your “unshakable bond”? Does this death-cult jeremiad justify overhauling your entire worldview?

Although Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Britain’s Boris Johnson make cameo appearances in Wolf’s analysis, it is Donald Trump who casts the shadow over Wolf’s jeremiad, and most of his narrative and analysis focuses on the United States.