Baker and Trump Actually Share One Attribute:  ‘Nixonian Habits’

In his marvelously insightful book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg recalls the 1960 presidential contest when the National Review founder saw then-candidate Richard Nixon as "less the leader of the GOP than as the 'amalgamator' of all the forces that composed it." Over a half century later, a sensible survey of the Republican party reveals that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and President Donald Trump are, likewise, "amalgamat

In his marvelously insightful book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg recalls the 1960 presidential contest when the National Review founder saw then-candidate Richard Nixon as "less the leader of the GOP than as the 'amalgamator' of all the forces that composed it." Over a half century later, a sensible survey of the Republican party reveals that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and President Donald Trump are, likewise, "amalgamat…