A Nation Adrift

[Geee]

American Spectator:

In the fantasy novel The Life of Pi, a young Indian boy is shipwrecked and somehow manages to survive 227 days at sea in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal Tiger.

I can't help thinking of "Richard Parker" -- that's the tiger's name in Yann Martel's novel -- when I think of the strange relationship between our 44th president and the American people.

Who is this president and how does he relate to the popular novel? Is he the man-eating tiger, or the potential victim in the little boy named "Pi"?

I would say that he is something else again: the spinner of the tale not as it was told in the book, but as it played out in the American psyche over the past four years.