baser

The Party of Lincoln, who appealed to the better angels of our nature, has become the Party of Trump, who panders to the baser instincts of his aggrieved followers.

As journalist and radio host Farai Chideya says in the new Hulu documentary “Hip-Hop and the White House”: “There are definitely aspects of Trump’s personality and actions that call to the baser nature of hip-hop.”

The consistent principle is much baser: cowardly fear of the mob.

But it is only in the striving for our humanity — even against the call of baser passions — that we truly secure the better world for which we fight.

But it also sparks in aimless Matthias a desire for focused companionship beyond an adolescent’s baser urges.