Michael Cohen’s story is a cautionary tale of a man without a moral core, a beta queen, a narcissist like the golden idol whom he revered, served, and who eventually turned on, hounded, and jailed him. Michael believes in submission. Because he has no center, no temple of higher ideals that he believes in, he can give in to authority and rationalize his actions. He is an empty man. You can see he is an empty coat on his podcast. All the air has gone out of him. This is a story of what not to do, and this is why we need to share this story.
Michael Cohen, the former fixer for the orange blob now occupying the presidency, is losing subscribers by the thousands, dropping from around 550,000 to about 492,000. That is because, ever since the Epstein files came out, Michael has failed to respond immediately to what should have been a molehill, instead turning it into a mountain of deceit. MeidasTouch cut him off and stopped airing his Political Beatdown and Mea Culpa podcasts. MeidasTouch did that because their leaders have a moral core. You know where they stand.
People know Cohen is a fake. That he has no moral core. What’s more, his podcast lacks informed primary sources and gets the news just like the rest of us, so Michael has, for the most part, moved to pure commentary. But what do the words of a commentator mean when you know he is a broken man who stands for nothing in particular other than his own financial gain? I don’t think he loves America. He may think he does. But he isn’t a coherent man and can’t possibly initiate the rock of love. For Michael, he wants back in with MAGA to get those big-money deals, like he did when he was the president’s personal attorney. He said so on a recent podcast. I still watch them occasionally, but mainly to see how low his subscriber count will go.
Recently, he went on the Patrick Bet-David podcast to speak directly to the orange blob, since he knows the orange blob watches the show. He told the orange blob he never really wanted to testify. He just wanted someone to reach out and hug him. He could have taken a hit like others have, if he had known he would be taken care of later. He made it clear that he wanted to return to the fold, to MAGA, that immoral darkness surrounding the nation.
Recently, I listened to Mea Culpa. He sat down with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at Yale School of Management, founder of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, and author of the forthcoming book Trump’s Ten Commandments, to examine Donald Trump’s leadership style through the lens of corporate power and institutional behavior. Cohen had just been invited by Sonnenfeld to speak to leaders of some 700 institutions of higher learning across America about how to handle the orange blob’s attacks on their freedoms and diversity that academic institutions should be able to enjoy under our Constitution. I was shocked, but I shouldn’t have been, as Cohen recommended capitulation. Oh my God. Yes, he did. Cohen restated his fundamental position: capitulation. He literally told these 700 leaders of the nation’s most prestigious and important academic institutions that if Trump came after them, they should give in and accept his deal. He gave his reasoning and basically said that if you don’t, he will increase his demand from, say, $200 million to $500 million. It only gets worse. He’s so stupid. Because really, once institutions stood up to the blob, they would win, Sonnenfeld argued. The only ones who suffered were those who followed Cohen’s advice. I mean, this man makes wrong turns. Don’t follow him.
The orange blob governs through intimidation and retaliation and is unable to accept loss, Cohen notes. Then adds, So just give in.
Michael’s show notes ask whether appeasement by universities, corporations, and civic institutions accelerates democratic erosion, risks normalizing coercion, and whether collective resistance remains one of the most effective counterweights to abuse of power. Yes. Yes, they do.
His own case shows that standing up to the bully works. You don’t hear of Trump going after institutions of higher education anymore. They stood up to him. But Cohen advocates submission to the orange blob. He doesn’t know what this fight is about.
Michael Cohen gets it wrong, fundamentally, as a commentator because he doesn’t have any kind of firm footing in what is good and unshakeable.
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