The Parable of Michael Cohen

I continue to think that Michael Cohen, of all people, holds vital clues to how Americans fell so hard for Donald Trump, and even how we might break the chains of Trumpism. 

In that way, his testimony may supply the most useful parable in this election. It should be broadcast and retold in every channel, a much-needed pop-culture artifact that needs to be part of the campaign against Trump.

In Gretchen Rubin’s idea of “the four tendencies”—how individuals respond to expectations, internal and external—she describes one as “obliging.”