I didn’t watch his 2024 Presidential run rollout….
But I did see some of it after…..
I agree with those who say….
Donald Trump looks tired….
Joe Biden has more zip in his walking and talking and had jet-lag this week…..
But Biden was a happy camper…..
Away from Washington ….
Democrats keeping the US Senate….
Republican only small US House majority margin….
Back as the American President that the world likes and seems to follow….
For Trump?
Cops trying to lock him up….
Other Cops trying to take business and money….
DeSantis trying to steal his thunder and polling ahaed of him in a few places….
Pence saying bad things about him…
Waiting for the GOPer’s to take over the House and get the committee off his case…
The media doing strories on people who are dissing him!
Nobody wanting to hear him crying about his losing ….
And?
Unlike Biden who CAN get on a bike and exercise ?
He can just walk slowly on a golf course and be winded…..
People have long predicted that Donald Trump would lose currency as a politician when he lost his capacity to outrage.
It is true enough that, like an overused narcotic, the effect of did-he-really-go-there rhetoric and norm-shattering behavior wears off after a while. It is true also that Trump has been more innovative than many imagined possible in forever finding new lines to cross.
There is another way that is less appreciated — perhaps even by the candidate himself — of how Trump and his movement will lose steam. It is when Trump loses his capacity for delight….
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The most significant change — it is dramatic — was that in 2015 Trump was self-evidently having fun and good-naturedly inviting his audience to have fun with him.
Yes, there were lines in 2015 that stirred outrage — his assertion that a flood of undocumented immigrants included many “rapists” — but the dominant tone was one of almost adolescent ebullience.
“I’m really rich!” he exclaimed, adding that his purpose was not to boast but to say he couldn’t be bought. Then he boasted: ”I’m really proud of my success.”…
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Trump is unique only in that he reached the White House. These figures typically streak across the sky, cause conventional politicians in both parties to quake, but do not have staying power.
In his 2022 incarnation, Trump is no longer a familiar American type. He is instead proposing to import a kind of Juan Peronism onto soil that has never in 240 years supported that kind of thing. The poor showing of election deniers in the midterm elections suggests the United States remains hostile ground to true authoritarianism.
“Every hero,” Emerson wrote some 170 years ago of Napoleon, “becomes a bore at last.”….
image….The Atlantic