Before events where so rudely interrupted last week, we were thinking of letting the Toronto Star’s Tony Burman know that no matter how he tries, president Trump could never be as politically smart as former president Richard Nixon. Tricky Dick, as Nixon was known, could make a ‘Law and Order’ campaign platform work. With expert advice, with all the right cue cards and with desperation, Trump could never run as a tough guy.
While you have to agree with Burman that Trump appears out of options for this fall and that polls show where he is losing support, you would be most unwise to consider the bastard done with.
We know that Trump is no politician. He is not a person who cares about democracy. He is not a person who cares about the truth. He has a highly inflated opinion of his own importance and competence.
When Tricky Dick was finally forced to resign, it was a dark and dreary three-act play in the White House. In 2021, when Americans finally rescue that failed icon of democracy from Donald Trump, there will be nail marks across the carpets of the oval office—when Trump and his clacque, kicking and screaming, are dragged out to the curb for the next garbage collection. It will not be proud moment.
Americans need to worry more about the detritus Trump leaves behind. They need to worry about the believers across America who, in their ignorance and self-indulgence believed that Trump would restore the legendary greatness of the America that took place under Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. Trump was not even working with the right party. Unlike the republican’s fabled Dwight Eisenhower, Trump cannot even play an honest game of golf.
If Trump wants to emulate Richard Nixon this fall, he should be made aware that his hero not only lost the Vietnam War but he also lost the White House.
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