Trump's indictment and the politics of revelation
I was reading the New Yorker’s David Remnick’s take on the Trump indictment late Thursday night, wondering if there was anything new for me to say, when the concept of the “politics of revelation” hit me.
I’ve written here for Politico magazine about how each new Trump scandal seems more like a “statue in the stone” moment than a genuine political development. (I guess I’ve had Michelangelo on the brain.)
My piece (which is safe for 6th graders to see) connects this phenomenon to recent research in political science, some presidential history, and the question of whether our politics can come unstuck.