Who would have dreamed just a short time ago that soon-to-be-former President Trump and Stacey Abrams would turn out to be so much like each other?

Both are so wholly invested in ego enhancement and in playing on grievance in much the same way. Both appear to have egos as big as Grand Central Station, to live for the cheers of enraptured supporters, and to look on the absence of praise and/or adulation as something perhaps worse than death. Hence Trump’s initial rejection of the very idea that he could have and did lose the election for president and the much too long wait before he accepted reality. And hence the refusal of Abrams ever to admit she had lost the election in 2018 to Brian Kemp, her opponent, by a 58,000 vote margin.