I will point out we’ve been predicting Trump’s ruin for the past 10 years and he still persists, stronger than ever.
He doesn’t seem that “strong” to me these days.
Trump may not be ruined, but his popularity is abysmal right now. And for a politician, that’s everything.
I mentioned elsewhere a quote by Thomas Hobbes: “The reputation of power is power.” Trump has been skillful (or lucky) in projecting the reputation of power — assisted, no doubt, by The Apprentice — but now it seems that reputation is beginning to erode. And as it erodes, so does his actual power to accomplish his goals. It’s not diminished greatly yet, but should the reputation erode further we may see more effective pushback. Even from Republicans, which would have been unthinkable a few months ago.
As for “Medical Diagnosis by watching TV,” it’s true that a specific diagnosis is impossible that way. But manifestations of his physical and mental decline are evident, and increasing.
Witness the reaction from a number of Republicans to the Obama/gorilla thing he posted.
As I’ve said before, ‘I am not a meteorologist, but I can tell if it’s raining.’
And if I may add, ‘I’m from NJ… and even in Linden, rain doesn’t smell like that.’
If an autopsy was authorized, it’d be conducted by a MAGA pathologist who’d say with tears in his eyes, “Sir, you’re the most perfect corpse I’ve ever seen.”
But he’d have to be around the super rich… and what’s there for a corpse to do around the super rich? Water ski…?
But Trump isn’t a politician. He’s a grifter who came across a con bigger than anything he’d run up to then. Personally, looking at clips from election night 2016 when Clinton conceded he didn’t figure he was going to win. He ran the campaign to enhance the Trump brand and barnstorm the country whinging about how the election had been stolen with a side helping of, “Send me money so I can fight this evil.”
Yes, he’s upset that his ratings are so low but it’s secondary to the money coming in.
I don’t care about that. I care about the way he’s dragging down the Republican Party. His grifting sucks but it’s not an existential threat to the nation. If he tanks in the polls and brings in a wave of Democratic victories in the midterms, we might at least see a slowdown in his atrocities for the rest of his term.
He may not act like it, but he’s literally the President of the United States, and the ultimate leader of the Republicans. He is a politician, whether or not being one is a priority for him.
YMMV but as an outsider, IMHO it’s an existential threat to the perception of a nation
Nothing can be done about that while he’s in office, unfortunately.
The notion that you think nothing can be done is why the rest of us think it’s an existential treat.
I’m sorry, but as long as Trump is in power, the US is going to be perceived terribly.
Also, it’s weird that you think the grifting is the biggest danger. It’s bad, sure, but I assure you as a person who is actually affected by what Trump does, it’s not the worst thing about him.
It’s like worrying about the arsonist stealing money from the till of a department store as the building burns around you.
It’s not, but the evidence would suggest that a third of the US is saying “I wish it was me who was ladling up the spondule”, while a third simply can’t be fagged about it. Which would suggest that empirically the average USAian, if not an filibuster proof majority, notwithstanding more conciliatory public utterances, when scratched are really thinking “Go, you good thing.”
It’s far from the worst thing about him, but it’s also unambiguously a high crime or misdemeanor, which is to say, it’s absolutely grounds for impeachment if Congress had any will.
Absolutely agree. And as public sentiment turns against him, the more Democrats might win in the midterms, and enough remaining Republicans might go along (because he’s such a clear liability) that impeachment is possible, which circles back to my point about his popularity being everything.
I’m not going to hold my breath, I think it’s extremely unlikely for it to happen. But the closer we get to that possibility, the better.
If a few right-minded billionaires offered the remainder of their fortunes to Trump and his stooges, they might agree in return to retire in luxury to somewhere no one would have to see, hear or think about them.
Epstein’s island is a possibility. Surely the ladies of Mar-A-Lago would jump at the chance.
In two weeks.