Trump's in trouble, but he's not going anywhere, writes mattbai
There’s a solid tradition in modern American politics of presidents hoping to shore themselves up with matters of war and diplomacy across the ocean, while back home their presidencies bob and sink beneath the waves.
In his desperate quest to distract us from sordid revelations about his campaign and his private behavior, Trump, elected leader of the most powerful country on earth, single-handedly elevates to near-equal status a country with fewer square miles than Mississippi and a smaller economy than Rhode Island. Bravo.
What people will remember was Cohen’s intimate and believable portrait of a syndicate-style boss who routinely lied to make himself seem richer and smarter than he was, who used money from a charity to buy a portrait of himself at inflated value, who ran down America because it — like other “shithole countries” — was being run by a black man.
We have plenty of political models for a guy like Trump, but they’re not Nixon — or even his indicted vice president, Spiro Agnew, who resigned in 1973. These weren’t shameable men. They weren’t looking to edify a majority of anything. They were crowd-pleasers playing to narrow constituencies — avatars for the alienated, driven by self-regard and determined to cast themselves as victims of a self-satisfied establishment.
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