Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He’s a boy’s idea of a man. He’s a man’s idea of a boy. Richard Cohen Read Quote
It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan’s acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump. Richard Cohen Read Quote
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don’t, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions are no mystery. Richard Cohen Read Quote
Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘New York Post.’ Trump’s oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table. Richard Cohen Read Quote
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is. Richard Cohen Read Quote
It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states’ rights or a way of life or a tradition – and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence. Richard Cohen Read Quote
Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times. Richard Cohen Read Quote
If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore. Richard Cohen Read Quote
