Trump Official Once Wrote Book About Suits in the Voice of Machiavelli
Michael Anton, a senior National Security Council official, waits in the East Room of the White House for the start of President Donald Trump's news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017.
Photographer: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APAs anyone with eyeballs can read on a baseball cap, the stated aim of the Trump administration is to make America great again. Militarily, economically, bigly, the nation will regain the grandeur that distinguished it in an unspecified golden age.
But you may not know that one member of the Trump administration has his sights on another, unrelated return to glory. His goal is to “rescue an America that is shabbier than the English, haughtier than the French, more fashion-enthralled than the Italians, without style, without class, shoddy, garish, unkempt, vulgar, and enduring blemishes of every sort.”