Some days I wonder if American democracy can survive the 2020 presidential campaign. Other times, I pray that The Mooch is right: that facing defeat, Donald J. Trump will contrive an excuse not to run for a second term.
Trump’s fragile ego, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Vanity Fair, couldn’t survive losing. “He’s got the self-worth in terms of his self-esteem of a small pigeon. It’s a very small pigeon.”
A pigeon?
View the complete August 29 article gy Gene Lyons on the National Memo website here.