America's sorest loser
By D.J. Tice and Star Tribune JANUARY 16, 2021 — 6:00PM
... "Unsuccessful aspirants" for the thrones of empires, Mencken wrote, are typically beheaded or at least "exiled to Paris." But American political competition, he lamented, "fills the land with disappointed and embittered savagely gnawing their fingernails." Defeated presidential hopefuls and ousted incumbents go on to spend years, even decades, "exhibiting their ghastly wounds and bellowing for justice" ...
... In 33 elections in which an incumbent chief executive sought an additional term, voters said no 11 times — fully one-third of the occasions ...
... before Trump, the most inflamed political sorehead also pulled off the most impressive political comeback. After losing the 1960 presidential race to John Kennedy, and a 1962 run for California governor, Richard Nixon promised that his foes "wouldn't have Nixon to kick around anymore." But he broke that promise, winning the White House at last in 1968 only to resign in disgrace six years later over the Watergate scandal, largely fueled by his unending political resentments and paranoia ...
... Trump, even before leaving office, has a set a new historic standard for damaging malice ...
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