All comeback stories in American politics look trifling beside the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 election that secured his place, at the age of 78, as a monumental figure in US history.
Bill Clinton got the name “the comeback kid” because after a scandal he righted his 1992 campaign with a good showing in the New Hampshire primary. Marion Barry managed to become mayor of Washington DC in 1994 after four years out of office that included six months in prison for cocaine possession. Lyndon B Johnson was transformed by President Kennedy’s assassination, from a former political titan reduced to a near laughing stock as vice-president into one of the most significant American leaders of the 20th century.
Trump was an ex-president who