BY DANIEL MENDELSOHN NOV 17, 2020
“I concede nothing.”
With those three words, tweeted out nearly two weeks after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which handed him a decisive electoral and popular defeat, Donald Trump took his place in one of the longest and most distinguished traditions that history offers: the sore loser. But if history and literature have anything to tell us, it’s that the figures who have earned the greatest admiration are often not the ones who won the battle or the election or the girl/boy, or whatever, but those who knew how to lose gracefully. Read HERE.
While victory is a showcase for talent, defeat is a showcase for character.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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