David Halberstam, in “The Best and the Brightest,” listed the “virtues Americans have always respected” as “hard work, self-sacrifice, decency, loyalty.” I don’t believe that’s changed since 1972. President Trump, in his sublime indecency, fails the test on all these qualities except perhaps hard work , yet tens of millions of Americans still admire him. That the Democratic Party will take the House in the midterm November elections and start impeachment proceedings against Trump is plausible, even likely. As the victim president, or acquitted president, he’d fire up support going into 2020. The strong economy became strong under President Obama but to deny Trump credit for it is not going to wash with most Americans.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2018 00:22 UTC