And the minds of a diminishing number of diehard fans. To everyone else, no. There are so many more who know (and admit) that he is fading, he is failing, he is not what he was even yesterday, but he refuses to accept it. Yes, there are rare musings about his own mortality and Heaven, but those are very few and far between. More is going wrong than right, but except for the whiny fits and raging screeds, he absolutely refuses to see that anything is wrong. Let’s dig into that a bit more. Compliments to Raw Story:
There’s a peculiar dialect spoken only at Donald Trump rallies, one where “winning” and being “loved” mean roughly the same thing, observed a new column.
The Bulwark’s Andrew Eggers pointed out how the 80-year-old president, greeting supporters this week at a factory in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, declared “I won this place so much,” attacked “Dumocrats” and murmured, “there’s so much love in the room.” His followers lapped it all up – and the president’s spirits got a much-needed boost, according to the analyst. “Trump hasn’t been doing so much winning lately,” Eggers wrote. “Islamist regimes abroad and single-celled organisms at home keep disobeying his extremely clear instructions, no matter how many bombs or gallon jugs of hydrogen peroxide he sends their way.
Yes, taking a few moments to laugh is not only good for the soul, but it’s a nice break from most of the news today. However, we have to agree that DonOld hasn’t been doing much winning lately, and it looks as if it’s going to continue. This does not upset us in the slightest. It’s odd that no matter how many times he says the same things, over and over ad nauseam, his diehard fans never seem to notice. Well, perhaps his appearances are spaced out enough that they don’t notice the repetition.
“Rogue judges keep ordering his name off of buildings, no matter how much he deserves to put it up and how nice it looks once it’s up there. Even his most reliable whipping boys, the Republicans of the United States Congress, have begun to flash a sudden and alarming new modicum of self-respect, with a small but significant number of them voting against his wars and scuttling his slush funds,” he added. “Yeah, D.C. sort of sucks lately.” His claims were, true to form, loose. As an example, Trump boasted that a record 19 million barrels of oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz, even though that figure actually falls short of last year’s daily average of 20 million.
Trump has always been fond of stretching the truth so hard it almost breaks and snaps back on him. That’s going to sting when it finally happens, because it will. He won’t see it coming until it’s too late. That will make it worth a tiny modicum of pain back on Trump for what he’s stuck us with. The sooner it happens, the happier we’ll be. There’s not exactly a way to guess at what the cause and the break will be, because there’s a wide variety of possibilities.
“The problem is that it’s growing clearer — even to increasingly panicky Republican strategists outside the building — that all this is an illusion,” Eggers wrote. “Trump might find these rallies both soothing and invigorating, but the people who show up in that room have never been further from a durable political majority.” Polling averages show him roughly 19 points underwater. “Trump might think that the vast majority of Real Americans approve of him,” Eggers wrote. “He might think, when he heads out for one of those rallies, that that’s who’s showing up.’ “But if he does, he’s sleepwalking into a bruising wakeup call,” the columnist added.
If we can dream for a few moments, if that wakeup call gets delayed long enough, it won’t happen until it is entirely too late for him to do anything but whine or rage. Epstein hasn’t gone away. The Iran War hasn’t gone away. These interludes might be a nice bit of ego-boosting, but he has a lot of factors weighing him down. Any one of us can easily think of three or four anvils around his neck. How about all the soccer money we’re losing because of him and DHS? Having the World Cup doesn’t do any good if the fans can’t get here and spend. That one comes to mind because writing *and* soccer are eating my life. But as you can see, something like that isn’t helpful. And Iran, inflation, the Strait, prices climbing, and so forth. We just need the perfect storm to hold him in place for a while so midterms actually happen. And we can’t count on flipping Congress, either. There is still far too much work to be done. We won’t know anything til it happens. We do not need to get complacent now.
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