What Trump Does for Democracy
Pauline Kael knew she wasn’t a representative American.
The onetime New Yorker film critic is famous in folk memory for having said she didn’t know anyone who voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, when he won a 49-state landslide.
The way her words are misremembered, she was surprised that someone so reviled by her social set could win the White House.
In fact, she wasn’t surprised: Kael told the…