California gave us Nixon and Reagan. Not to be outdone, New York gave us these two monsters.
When Giuliani was mayor of New York City, Jimmy Breslin called him “a small man in search of a balcony.” When he was running for President in 2007 and uttered no sentence that didn’t contain “9/11” — you know, back before he forgot that it happened on the watch of Appointed President Bush — John Powers said, “His Nixonian soul comes bearing the face of a particularly cruel Renaissance cardinal.” And let’s not forget how he informed his second wife (he’d had his first marriage annulled) that he was divorcing her: at a press conference! He has always been preternaturally vile, and — ah, karma! — here he is now going as mad in public as the psychopath he’s supporting. As the article says, “It has been a startling next — and perhaps last — act for a 72-year-old politician once nicknamed America’s Mayor, and noteworthy enough for a handful of editorial pages to call him ‘unhinged.'” Jonathan Mahler & Maggie Haberman@The New York Times (9/9/16)
