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“The damage he did in his first term was reparable,” Bolton said recently.

The keys to Jewish survival against all odds, through the travails of history and the demonic visions of those who wished for a world without us, lie in three strengths: The ability to adapt to changing circumstances without sacrificing the ideals central to our identity; the vision to see the cycles of politics and power as passing and reparable; and the vow to hold fast to our defining faith in the moral arc of a universe that bends toward justice, goodness and blessing.

“I don’t think there’s any question about that. But I think all that damage was reparable. I think that constitutions are written with human beings involved, and occasionally you get bad actors. This was a particularly bad actor. So with all the stress and strain on the Constitution, it held up pretty well.”

But had Donald Trump won in 2020, Bolton told me, in his second term he might well have inflicted “damage that might not be reparable.”

“Judge Ryan did not make an implicit finding that Malvo was reparable or corrigible,” she wrote in a court filing.