Listening this month at Harvard to the top aides to these two temperamentally distinct Presidents recount their experiences... struck me: maybe these two insular, self-confident men are in some ways mirrored images of each other.
At times, the conversation sounded an awful lot like hostages recounting their monthslong trauma. Their opinions were unlikely to be heeded, and rarely solicited.
...they seemed sidelined by circumstance. It was in many ways the distillation of a campaign cycle that left even the most plugged-in politico feeling deflated.
Their professed confidence in each's own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.
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