Shameless to the Core
February 2, 2025
“Pageant” August 2020
Trumpism and its lineage of nihilism
History may not exactly repeat itself. But it took only a few days in January for Donald Trump to resurrect memories of a famously pernicious character who connects a very dark chapter from our past with our even darker present.
His name was Roy Cohn (1927—1986), to whom the words “unscrupulous” a…
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