July 29, 2017
THE REPUBLIC IS DOING JUST FINE WITHOUT ONE:
Trump is something the nation did not know it needed (George F. Will, July 28, 2017, Washington Post)
Sessions serves at the pleasure of the president, who does not seem pleased. Still, sympathy for Sessions is in order: What is he to do? If dignity concerned him, he would resign; but if it did, he would not occupy a Trump-bestowed office from which to resign. Such are the conundrums of current politics. Concerning which, there is excessive gloom."To see what is in front of one's nose," George Orwell wrote, "needs a constant struggle." An unnoticed reason for cheerfulness is that in one, if only one, particular, Trump is something the nation did not know it needed: a feeble president whose manner can cure the nation's excessive fixation with the presidency.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 29, 2017 9:43 AM