JakeStarkey
10-07-2021, 02:58 PM
The posted article below makes it quite clear that the Trumpers are snorting mind-altering intoxicants.
Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen. We’ve seen this president’s type before. They always fade away. Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris,
(https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrE1.CUUF9heskAshtXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9 zAzcEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1633665300/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.politico.com%2fnews%2fmagazin e%2f2020%2f12%2f10%2ftrump-comeback-2024-not-happening-444135/RK=2/RS=AjR2eaQdkwNJmjxVZOcQNSEZU1w-)
There are three primary reasons to be deeply skeptical that Trump’s moment of dominating his party and public consciousness will continue long after Jan. 20.
Most important are the abundant precedents suggesting Trump does not have another important act in national politics. The perception that Trump will remain relevant hinges on the possibility that he is a unique historical figure. Trump, however, is singular in one sense only: No politician of his stripe has ever achieved the presidency. In multiple other ways, he is a familiar American type, anticipated by such diverse figures as Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Ross Perot.
Like Trump, they all possessed flamboyant, self-dramatizing personas. They tapped into genuine popular grievance toward elites, and had ascendant moments in which they caused the system to quake and intimidated conventional politicians of both parties. In every case, their movements decayed rapidly. Cults of personality in American politics are quite common. But they never live long, and Trump has offered no reason to suppose he will be an exception.
That’s the second reason Trump is not well-positioned to retain his hold on public attention: He has largely abandoned any pretense that he thinks about anything other than his personal resentments, or that he is trying to harness his movement to big ideas that will improve the lives of citizens. When he vaulted into presidential politics five years ago, Trump’s still-potent gifts — for channeling anger, for mockery, for conspiracy theory — were once channeled to an agenda that fellow Republicans were largely neglecting, over trade, immigration, globalization, and perceptions of national decline. These days, no one can follow Trump’s Twitter feed and believe that he cares more about the public’s problems than his own, and that is not a recipe for sustaining political power.
Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen. We’ve seen this president’s type before. They always fade away. Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris,
(https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrE1.CUUF9heskAshtXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9 zAzcEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1633665300/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.politico.com%2fnews%2fmagazin e%2f2020%2f12%2f10%2ftrump-comeback-2024-not-happening-444135/RK=2/RS=AjR2eaQdkwNJmjxVZOcQNSEZU1w-)
There are three primary reasons to be deeply skeptical that Trump’s moment of dominating his party and public consciousness will continue long after Jan. 20.
Most important are the abundant precedents suggesting Trump does not have another important act in national politics. The perception that Trump will remain relevant hinges on the possibility that he is a unique historical figure. Trump, however, is singular in one sense only: No politician of his stripe has ever achieved the presidency. In multiple other ways, he is a familiar American type, anticipated by such diverse figures as Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Ross Perot.
Like Trump, they all possessed flamboyant, self-dramatizing personas. They tapped into genuine popular grievance toward elites, and had ascendant moments in which they caused the system to quake and intimidated conventional politicians of both parties. In every case, their movements decayed rapidly. Cults of personality in American politics are quite common. But they never live long, and Trump has offered no reason to suppose he will be an exception.
That’s the second reason Trump is not well-positioned to retain his hold on public attention: He has largely abandoned any pretense that he thinks about anything other than his personal resentments, or that he is trying to harness his movement to big ideas that will improve the lives of citizens. When he vaulted into presidential politics five years ago, Trump’s still-potent gifts — for channeling anger, for mockery, for conspiracy theory — were once channeled to an agenda that fellow Republicans were largely neglecting, over trade, immigration, globalization, and perceptions of national decline. These days, no one can follow Trump’s Twitter feed and believe that he cares more about the public’s problems than his own, and that is not a recipe for sustaining political power.