June 4 Open Thread: Guess Which Toxic Narcissist Said It

Self-regard and the presidency fit together all too well, as Bill Clinton reminds us with a — get this — book tour for a novel. It didn’t go all that well on this morning’s “Today” show when he was asked if, in light of the #metoo movement, he should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. See if this quote reminds you of anyone else who’s lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. recently:

“You, typically, have ignored gaping facts in describing this and I bet you don’t even know them. This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.”

The name of his novel is “The President is Missing.” If only the ex-president were.

With the midterms in mind, a pair of stories about Democrats in the hustings. First Eleanor Clift checks in on Macomb County, Mich., a famous blue-collar bellwether, and finds Democratic messaging has not broken through. A key issue in 2016, her expert says, was the TPP, and Obama’s backing for it made it difficult for Hillary to oppose. These are the same racists, by the way, who twice voted for Obama.

Mother Jones takes a ground-level look at a progressive Democrat running in an Iowa primary to take on Amemica’s most racist Congressman, Steve King. The piece is bookended by J.D. Scholten’s diner-table encounter with an outspoken King supporter, which is worth the read all by itself.

We know, thanks to a 2016 News Journal story, that Delaware police use cell-signal interception technology to track suspects’ location by their phones. Politico has an interesting story about the criminal hacker whose case established the existence of the technology — but only because he fired his lawyers and represented himself.