An Interlude of Moral Clarity
Michael Cohen’s testimony was a reminder that this presidency isn’t normal.
“A Racist … A Con Man … A Cheat.” Those were the words etched in the chyron as Michael Cohen testified. Yet that litany somehow fails to do justice to Cohen’s moral portrait of Donald Trump.
At the beginning of this presidency, the great fear was “.” The shock of Donald Trump’s election, this theory held, would eventually dissipate. Once he sat behind the big desk, surrounded by oil, racism, venality, and dangerous vainglory, and then move on. Perhaps the fact that has slipped from discourse is evidence that there was something to this fear.
