The lessons we learned from Nixon about when presidents unravel
Nixon schemed and spewed dangerous vitriol behind closed doors, Trump is doing the same in full view of the public
LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
10.14.2017•8:00 AM
Has there ever been a more terrifying synergy in the life of a nation such as ours? First, in Las Vegas, we had a madman on the 32nd floor of a hotel firing automatic rifles indiscriminately into a crowd of innocent concertgoers across the street, killing at least 59, wounding more than 500. He left no clues. Nothing was found in the hotel room or inside his several houses that lets us know why he acted in such an insane way against his fellow American citizens. Aided and abetted by lax gun laws, both national and those of the state of Nevada, he was able to carry out his crazed, deadly rampage with impunity.
Now we have a madman in the White House who was reported to have threatened the whole fucking world by calling for 10 times the number of nuclear weapons we currently have, the occasion last summer at the Pentagon that led to his secretary of state calling him “a fucking moron.” Then he’s firing off tweets killing his fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico with ineffectual federal aid to the island and threatening to remove what little assistance there is, alleging, “ Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend . . . . We cannot keep FEMA, the Military and the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!”
Then, hardly pausing to take a breath, the madman kills his fellow citizens who are sick and impoverished and relying on Obamacare health insurance policies that will be damaged by his executive order stripping the program of subsidies and allowing cheapo reduced coverage that will make premiums for standard coverage policies out of reach for many of those currently insured.
He left no clues. Nothing is known about why he is acting in such an insane way against his fellow American citizens. Aided and abetted by a lax Congress and the voters of the states that put him in office, he is able to carry off his crazed, deadly rampage with impunity.
It really makes you wonder where all of this is going, doesn’t it? I mean, everyone seems to have arrived at a point where we’re asking, how does this end? There is a growing consensus not only in the population but in the Congress and the White House that we’re dealing with a crazy person here.
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