Why Donald Trump will resign

Donald Trump is not a fighter and has never much cared for the presidency as anything but a vanity project. But like Lyndon Johnson, he has a morbid fear of losing. In his eyes, his life is an unbroken string of victories.

Donald Trump is sinking in the polls as a result of a perfect storm of pandemic, revolt and exhaustion. His ratings have declined dramatically since March and most surveys put his rival, Senator Joe Biden, anywhere between 10 and 15 points ahead.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY PATRICE DUTIL

June 26, 2020

TORONTO—Observers of the American presidency are at a loss in their search for historical parallels that could explain Donald Trump’s performance. His administration has been so eccentric, so out of the ordinary, so willing to step into unploughed territory, that it has become easy to simply dec...

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