Connelly: Big job, small man
(WorldNews Politics)

By William F. Connelly, Jr. Connelly is the John K. Boardman Politics Professor Emeritus at Washington and Lee University where he taught American Politics and Political Thought. Mount Rushmore dwarfed Donald Trump. Trump recently compared himself (favorably!) to Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, who led us successfully through our greatest crisis. “They always said Lincoln – nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.” Trump even claimed, at one point, that his poll numbers were better than Lincoln`s, though polling did not exist in the 1860s. Trump, master of the photo op, not long ago went so far as to co-opt the Lincoln Memorial for a Fox News interview....