We Saw It

 

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We saw it all happen! The president not only told everybody at the time—he bragged about it at the time. We are surprised only because we forgot what we ourselves witnessed. There’s something quite brilliant in how Woodward and his publishers can use our amnesia for their marketing. But there is something very unbrilliant, indeed ominously dangerous, in the inability of the American public and even the American media to remember crimes and scandals that they witnessed in every last detail as they happened.

-David Frum in The Atlantic

The tragedy is not in Trump---he is what he is---the tragedy is that the country has put up with him in our sickness---ominously dangerous.