Hillary Rodham Clinton could not stop him, and Robert Mueller so far has landed something less than a fatal blow. So the task of defeating Donald Trump in 2020 may now fall to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Every hero,” wrote 19th-century America’s foremost man of letters a century before Trump was born, “becomes a bore at last.”
And every villain, too, Democrats are urgently hoping from their own vantage point.
View the complete June 18 article by John F. Harris on the Politico website here.