“The tapes are the real man — mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down,” Gary Wills wrote of Richard Nixon in the 2017 preface to his book, “Nixon Agonistes.” Wills added, perhaps unfairly, that “Nixon’s real
Nixon in exile still enjoyed the respect not just of his friends but of his enemies. Trump has no friends and his pathetic record of lies stands alone.
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