His infamous protestation notwithstanding, Richard Nixon was, in fact, a crook. But there were two extremely important occasions when he put the nation’s interests ahead of his own. The first, of course, was his resignation, which avoided a divisive, protracted impeachment trial. The less well known episode occurred in 1960, when he accepted the outcome of an election that may have been decided by the votes of dead people in Chicago. It was a precedent for Al Gore’s concession in 2000.
Trump has already put us through the pain of an impeachment trial. Will he follow Nixon’s example if he loses in November?
Of course not. That would require him to care about the condition of the country, which is of no interest to him whatsoever.