You know you have an image problem when, some 225 years after your death, people as wildly dissimilar as Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Louise Linton, her polar opposite, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and now even Barack Obama are all accused of having a “Marie Antoinette moment.”
The passage of centuries is usually accompanied by more objective re-assessment, but this hasn’t happened with the notorious Queen of France. Marie Antoinette is still the go-to name for cruel callousness—the rich, stuck-up, self-centered party girl everyone loves to hate. My goodness, even Richard Nixon gets a kind word now and then.
