Just this past weekend I read Joe Klein’s review of Maggie Haberman’s book about you-know-who. Here’s his concluding paragraph:
“We can hope that Trump is an aberration, not an avatar, but that would probably be delusional. He has created a brutish new standard for American politics, and put a terrible dent in our democracy. Maggie Haberman has been there for it all. The story she tells is unbearably painful because Trump’s success is a reflection of our national failure to take ourselves seriously. We will be very lucky, indeed, if he doesn’t prove our downfall.”
‘bout sums it up.