"it doesn’t make sense to say that Trump is an aberration from the mainstream of American life. Instead, he is the exclamation point on our consistent failure to live up to our own self-image." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-presidents-history.html
Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself. Trump Is Not an Aberration.

Many of the worst things the president has said and done were said and done by his predecessors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-presidents-history.html
this whole column
if you asked me (and nobody did, but hey, this is twitter) I would say these four years have robbed us of the salutary effects of hypocrisy
I mean, of course, aside from all the needlessly dead people, who were robbed of their lives, and imprisoned people, who were robbed of their freedom, and disfranchised people, who were robbed of their rights, and everyone who's tried to cling to a sense of reality …
on top of ALL THAT, we've been robbed of the salutary effects of hypocrisy
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