Jake Tapper: “It’s interesting, so often during this Trump era, I think about I’m, you know, I’m a history buff, not an esteemed historian, but I think a lot about how will history remember people and this era, and it just seems like some of these individuals that are enablers of Trump, just don’t even remotely think that way in terms of how is this going to look in 10 or 20 years?”
Historian/author Douglas Brinkley: “Yeah, because they have no soul and don’t have a deep love for the country. They put self-interest or political power ahead of themselves. The story of Rudy Giuliani alone will be talked about for ages.
“It’s important to realize that Donald Trump is not really part of the presidents club. He’s an outlier. In that way he will be remembered, he’s going to have his fans, but it’s more like Dillinger and Al Capone and Billy the Kid or something. There’ll be a folk cause around him, but he’s an outlaw, and somebody who in the end will be seen as an enemy of the U.S. Constitution. It might sell you some t-shirts in Gatlinburg and Tombstone, Arizona, and might keep Trump’s image alive and well, but in the real game of history, which is serious, in years to come, Trump and all of his enablers are going to be seen on the dung hill of U.S. political history.”