For a long time, Republicans have brandished the same old narrative to try to scare their way into the White House. With Donald Trump, it was Mexican rapists and the Barack Obama birther lie. “They said, ‘We want to get Jesus’,” Trump ominously told Sean Hannity on Thursday night. In the last election, Trump milked white aggrievement to catapult himself into the White House. I asked Tim O’Brien, the Trump biographer, what to expect as the man obsessed with winning faces humiliating rejection.

Source: The Irish Times June 28, 2020 12:53 UTC