Jonathan Bernstein: “To begin with, no party has had a former president run for their nomination since Teddy Roosevelt did it in 1912. And even that isn’t an ideal comparison because Roosevelt was running as a third-party challenger against a sitting Republican president, William Howard Taft…”
“Then there is the unprecedented fact that Trump is the first-ever frontrunner to be in deep legal trouble. It’s true that in 2016 Hillary Clinton was under investigation (as was, it turned out, Trump himself, multiple times). But it simply doesn’t compare. The 19-item list of criminal and civil trouble Trump faces right now is simply far more serious and extensive than … well, it’s probably more legal trouble for a presidential candidate than all other candidates combined over the last 50 years. Perhaps throughout US history.”
“That’s not all! Trump remains a rare and perhaps unique case of a nomination frontrunner who can’t be counted on to be loyal to the party regardless of what happens.”
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