Seven-term Republican congressman Charlie Dent’s fetish is honor, wrapped in decency and courage.

Representing Pennsylvania’s 15th District, Allentown native Charlie Dent has always fought for the middle ground in times of extremism. He talks truth to power. He’s doing it right now, in the Age of Trump. I wish I had Dent’s balls.

Imagine the scene: He’s there in the White House with some fellow Republican members of Congress, waiting, when in walks the President of the United States, a man who has devoted so much energy to making himself appear larger than life — dominant, fully in charge, not to be opposed. And now Trump gets to sit at that grand Oval Office desk, made of timbers from the HMS Resolute, and sign any executive order he wants, command the U.S. military,... Read More