“The most important thing you ask for in a president is that willingness to assume responsibility,” explained the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. “Why is it that most of the presidents we remember the best had moments of crisis, whether it’s George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt? It’s because they were able to communicate to the people what the crisis was, to make the people feel inspired to be part of working it out through empathy, taking responsibility and setting an example, and then to mobilize every resource in the country.” Trump did none of those things. His
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