Opinion: WHCA Dinner Highlight's the Real Tragedy/Story, of Trump

The White House Correspondents Association Dinner is a special night for political journalism. However this year's will be scored, reported and compared to others in the past based on everyone's personal political tastes. What I summarized from all reports, tweets, posts about the dinner is the following. There is no doubt in my mind that the Donald Trump Presidency will be one of the most written about and studied Presidencies in American History. Whether it be the tragedy or the folly or just what and how it happened, it will studied by scholars long after we are all gone. It will not read like Jefferson 1800, or Jackson 1828 or even Roosevelt 1932. Perhaps only the great Lincoln himself will still be more studied then President Donald Trump. Make no mistake about it every Presidential Election is a civil war, a revolution, and a marker in American History, but what is going on with the Trump Presidency is different. Why? My first guess is because it may be the first truly "Revenge Presidency."

The South lost the election of 1860 and then the Civil War, but had John C. Breckinridge, Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 Presidential election from Kentucky, won that election perhaps there might be a distinct parallel to 2016. President Trump is a force of revenge on the history of the last 100 years that has not been favorable to Americans known as his political base. His presidency is their revenge. The last one hundred years have seen major progress in women's right, that started with basic voting rights and then the building of a real political power base. The Afro-American/Black/ People of Color movement towards healing a wrong that can never be un-wronged has flowered into what has to be the crowning achievement of politics in my lifetime, that being the Presidency of Barak Obama. Now however the fervor of the Trump factor has shoved decency of Obama's Presidency to footnote status. The LGBT community has now established a powerful voice and influence in the last twenty years not predicted in any political science courses I took at Georgetown and GWU in the 1970's. While the rise of the Latino Revolution is only about to happen. That's a lot of political power going into great places to represent too often maligned and mistreated Americans, but at who's expense? This answer is skewed by where you sit on the political tree, but it may not be a stretch to say "the they" just might be "Trump's Political Base."

The 2018 WHCA dinner only highlighted how fierce the pitched battle is and will continue to be as the political factions of this diverse country interact moving forward. "Foreign Intrigue" has played a huge part in many elections, sometimes extremely successfully, other times not so much . Ask the 1800 Federalist to talk about Jefferson, or ask Lincoln and Charles Adams experts to talk about England during the Civil War. I firmly believe the volume of books to come about Trump, his Presidency, and his aftermath will dwarf books about Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes and Obama. Why? My answer is just look at the last WHCA dinners and tell me if the folks in attendance think we are living in normal business as usual times?