re: #461 HappyWarrior

That’s what separates him from Nixon. I don’t think Nixon resigned out of shame but rather genuine recognition that him being removed from office would be awful for the country so he resigned. A writing is on the wall sort of situation. Trump? Trump still thinks he’s popular when he in fact never was.

Nixon was incapable of shame. I don’t think Nixon resigned out of shame but rather genuine recognition that him being removed from office would be awful for the country himself, so he resigned. (I recently read Jaworski’s The Right and the Power.)