Never Reelect a Revolutionary
Crisis looms over the Trump movement in its moment of victory, and it is a crisis of narrative. The old accounts of who Trump is, what he has accomplished, and what he and his cause are destined to achieve no longer apply. Because this will be the second time Trump enters the White House as a revolutionary, the second time he assumes leadership promising a definitive reckoning. And politicians in general—and politicians like him in particular—aren’t supposed to have a reckoning with themselves.