WASHINGTON — It is a hoary tradition: Outfox history, if you can. You might call this maneuver: I really wasn’t the horrible person I was. I want to be remembered as the person I want you to think I was. James Baker and Dina Powell, advisers to Republican presidents, may have been the all-time masters of this dark art, simply gliding away from their administrations’ catastrophes like black silk. As those who enabled Trump and Mark Zuckerberg to build their reality distortion fields thrash about trying to flip the script, history is being set in amber.

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2021 14:40 UTC