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The article notes that that Nixon and Trump are both:
Stingy and using the presidency for personal and family profit
"[D]escribed as their own worst enemies, unable to ignore a slight or let go of a grudge. Nixon was privately obsessed with revenge, ‘a battle to be fought and won, no quarter given,’ observed Post writer William Greider. Likewise, they shared a tendency to choose staffers more on the basis of loyalty than expertise, and observers debated whether working for the president would degrade those associated with him or was justified by the need to keep capable people serving their country. . .
[E]ngaged in a strange and long-standing love-hate relationship with the media — even as they sought to bypass it to speak directly to the people. . . 'For the loyalists … slanted newspapers and television commentators are out to destroy the President.'"
Have as their own worst enemy something inside themselves
From the same party whose members are grappling "with the idea that they should be loyal, that 'our fortunes are as one'"
"[A]cted with such impunity seemed like a symptom of something gone terribly wrong. As Times columnist Anthony Lewis lamented of the Nixon White House and its impact on the country, 'There is no respect for truth, and the community loses the belief that knits it together. … Americans may hesitate at what seems to some regicide, but they understand that their sickness comes from the king.'"
"[M]anaged to entangle us in another round of the same traumatic psychodrama."
Read also Trump's Big CON: A Déjà Vu Nixon Presidency.
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