Trump Risks ‘Exit Stage Left’ Headline

"Exit, Stage Left" was the memorably apt cover line on the January 2009 issue of Reason magazine, over a picture of George W. Bush, whose party had just been defeated by Barack Obama and the Democrats after Bush turned an economic downturn into a crisis by seizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG. The Republican Party's 2008 nominee, Senator John McCain, had mounted a losing run for the presidency denouncing "self-interest," and promising to "put an end to the greed that has

"Exit, Stage Left" was the memorably apt cover line on the January 2009 issue of Reason magazine, over a picture of George W. Bush, whose party had just been defeated by Barack Obama and the Democrats after Bush turned an economic downturn into a crisis by seizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG. The Republican Party's 2008 nominee, Senator John McCain, had mounted a losing run for the presidency denouncing "self-interest," and promising to "put an end to the greed that has driven our markets…