PredFan
Diamond Member
Until now it has been unclear to me precisely how Trump ends. His manifestly rotten character hasnāt alienated his supporters, who are all too ready with rationalizations and fluent in trade-offs. Theyāre also unbothered by many of his missteps, because he has sold those to a cynical electorate as media fables and rivalsā fabrications. Heās so enterprising and assiduous at pointing the finger elsewhere that many voters have lost their bearings. Defeat is victory. Oppressors are liberators. Corruption is caring. Mar-a-Loco is Shangri-La.
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āEven Trumpās Supporters Are Getting Tired of His Daily Dramaā was the headline on Jim Geraghtyās Monday column in National Review, which sometimes travels fantastically creative routes to reach the sunny side of Trump.
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He linked to a lament by the conservative writer Rod Dreher, who, he noted, āis exhausted from the president behaving like āa clown who refuses to meet with the prime minister of Denmark because she wonāt sell him Greenland.āā
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I wouldnāt be surprised if voters consciously or subconsciously conclude that they just canāt continue to live like this and that four more years would be ruinous, if not to the country as a whole, then to our individual psyches. By the time Election Day rolls around, they may crave nothing more electric than stability and serenity. That wouldnāt be a bad Democratic bumper sticker. Itās essentially the message of Joe Bidenās campaign.
Donald Trump Has Worn Us All Out
We can only hope that Frank Bruni is correct.
100% fake news. Trump is winning, America is winning, and none of us are tired of winning.