The Wall Street Journal has published an article entitled, “Will Donald Trump Blow Another Election?”
Such a question betrays the assumption that the election was/is Trump’s to win in the first place. In the months and years since the 2020 election and January 6, Trump has somehow remained a viable candidate despite everything he’s said and done that might give most reasonable people cause to wonder how he’s still standing.
One could argue that the upcoming election in November includes a Republican candidate who shouldn’t have been eligible to run this time around—for legal reasons and because he is such a flagrantly flawed, incompetent, and unpleasant human being.
Blow another election? This would seem to imply that his loss in 2020 somehow came out of left field, rather than being an indication that the public was tired of him, leery of him, and finally on to his shtick—that he was, in reality, the furthest thing from an “everyman” candidate. If Trump blew his chances in 2020, it was because the curtain was pulled back on who he really was. Well, that and he’s got the fatal flaw of opening his mouth and speaking.
The fact that, despite a new ticket and new life on the Democratic side, the election is apparently still close at this point simply boggles the mind. A candidate with highly suspect motives, with no platform except Project 2025, and a plan to infiltrate election boards in swing states with election deniers should be all anyone needs to know about Trump and the party that props him up.
Trump is a straw man, and the GOP– or whatever this iteration of the Republican Party is– is a party tilting at windmills, suffering from a dearth of good ideas, and too eager to pay homage to the dark side.
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