A vice president with relationships on Capitol Hill or with the nation’s governors and mayors can be a conduit for information that other politicians will not share with a president or her spouse.
How wealthier whites through the centuries successfully employed a “divide and conquer” strategy that brought together whites of all social classes under a common racial identity with a common enemy. Which brings us to Donald Trump.
The part of me that is a congressional historian sees this as a useful signpost and a colorful narrative of the ongoing stress that comes from an obstructionist Congress.
