"After taking the oath of office, which he took approximately as seriously as he did contracts he'd signed with workmen in Atlantic City, he delivered what is unquestionably the weirdest inaugural address in American history..."
"In retrospect, I have come to believe that this bit of comic-opera boogedy-boogedy gave a lot of people permission to treat the first Trump administration as a kind of burlesque of government..."
"As Reedy wrote: ...the most important, and least examined, problem of the presidency is that of maintaining contact with reality... a president starts giving thought to this question... he is headed inevitably for trouble."
"No one has placed over the White House door the admonition, facile decensus Averni. No one comes rushing to him with somber warnings and Dutch-uncle talk..."
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