Something Short of Tragic
Hey,
I wrote my Los Angeles Times column on the sadness of Donald Trumpโs life right now. I wonโt reprise the whole thing here. I just want to use it as a jumping-off point.
While I find Trumpโs existence pitiable these days, I canโt really muster much actual pity in the technical sense. Pity involves notions of compassion and sorrow for anotherโs misfortune, and there are few people in public life Iโm less inclined to allocate such feelings for. Even on issues where I am nominally on his side, I think he deserves all of the trouble he has invited upon himself.
For instance, I do not think Congress should make his tax returns public because I think punitively releasing tax returns is a bad practice, even when done against people I think have it coming.