Left on a Jet Plane

I just had to get away.

I was vaccinated against Trump Derangement Syndrome long before he showed up on the Potomac. Nixon, Ford, the Bushes, Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq, Afghanistan—all had sanded off the edges of my rage over the years. Plus, of course, there were always criminal manservants—the H.R. Haldemans and Paul Manaforts, to name just two—that deserved equal disdain, ma…