Donald Trump has decided to take the Republicans down with him
They have decided to take the United States.
First of all, we all need to admit that Donald Trump is losing this election.
Even he knows it. This man has gotten up on his hind legs in front of scads of people and told us all that he is planning on losing, because he doesn’t know how to govern. That was the week he called himself a cheerleader for the country, lying to us about Coronavirus to keep our spirits up. I must remind you: the only time being a cheerleader is a qualification for being elected is when you’re running for homecoming queen.
Likewise, winners don’t threaten to assault people at polling places, and they don’t need to tell everyone that the results will be fake if they lose.
A month and a half ago, I watched the 9/13/20 speech in Nevada, available free on Youtube.
It was terrifying to look at the president in a closed hall with 5,000 people, who were only required to wear masks if they were going to be on camera. Everyone there was very excited to be in a room with each other.
Since then things have only gotten worse.
Once we admit that President Donald Trump is losing reelection, that even with the electoral college and Russian cheating and voter suppression and weaponized racism and all those other unhinged talking points that have us all nauseous and shaking in our boots the guy has screwed up enough to lose, we have to also admit that he knows it.
We watched him in the debates — both the first: the off-the-hook, screaming-in-people’s-faces, let’s-spread-covid debate, and the second, a week ago last Thursday, where he stood there and lied: about breakdown in cities, about pandemic response, about a laptop with emails that were never going to mean anything.
We watched him in his disastrous town hall, which was if nothing else a paen to poor interview preparation.
I had stopped watching by this last week, but I saw in the news that there were two rallies where people ended up at the hospital — one from hypothermia and poor planning, one from heat stroke.
The man is scared, and he’s out of money, and he’s grappling with a level of failure he’s never seen in his long and illustrious career — because no one living has seen this level of failure.