A Mediocre, Miserable Man

Summary

In the course in international relations I took with him as a Harvard undergraduate in the early 1960s, when he was still a mere professor of government, Henry Kissinger had certain personal observations that he would frequently reiterate , a main one of which was, “In retrospect, everything looks inevitable.” President Donald Trump, halfway through his second term in office, suddenly—and, I would guess, to a certain extent unexpectedly, to him—finds his political power severely circumscribed . Was this midterm election outcome, more extreme in its repudiation of his government than virtually…

Description from New Republic.