Politics, The Presidency, Trump
Trump’s Five Lessons
More important than ever
This morning’s New York Times reports President Biden is gaining on Donald Trump in a new NYT-Sienna College poll. The poll shows the two candidates virtually tied, with Trump enjoying a one-percent edge at 47–46. The poll shows Biden regaining Democratic votes, a welcome trend.
Will Biden continue to gain in the polls? Let’s hope so, but voters must learn Trump’s Five Lessons for that to happen. I outlined them in a Medium article in September 2022. After rereading that article over the weekend, I realized that the lessons seem more valid today than ever. Thus, I am republishing the piece. It may be found as published here and below.
Five Lessons Trump Taught Us
The Trump presidency is likely to be studied more than any other president’s other than Lincoln and maybe Washington. While Trump did not lead America through a war or depression, expand civil rights, or, truth be told, do much of anything positive, he did come close to trashing the Constitution and democracy. That makes him…
