Nooners: The Week It Went South For Trump

Well, Nooners is Nooners...I've been surprised she's made as much sense as she has for the last year or so.

I didn't even finish this, as it kind of spins out of control. I stopped with "he doesn't even understand his base," which seems ridiculous to me.

But this bit probably captures some that's right, and what many are thinking:

   Something shifted this month. Donald Trump’s hold on history loosened, and may be breaking. In some new way his limitations are being seen and acknowledged, and at a moment when people are worried about the continuance of their country and their own ability to continue within it. He hasn’t been equal to the multiple crises. Good news or bad, he rarely makes any situation better. And everyone kind of knows.
[bad polls roundup] 
   The latest White House memoir paints the president as ignorant, selfish and unworthy of high office. Two GOP House primary candidates the president supported lost their primaries resoundingly. Internet betting sites that long saw Mr. Trump as the front-runner now favor Mr. Biden. The president’s vaunted Tulsa, Okla., rally was a dud with low turnout. Senior officials continue to depart the administration—another economic adviser this week, the director of legislative affairs and the head of the domestic policy council before him. Why are they fleeing the ship in a crisis, in an election year?
   Judgments on the president’s pandemic leadership have settled in. It was inadequate and did harm. He experienced Covid-19 not as a once-in-a-lifetime medical threat but merely a threat to his re-election argument, a gangbusters economy. He denied the scope and scale of the crisis, sent economic adviser Larry Kudlow out to say we have it “contained” and don’t forget to buy the dip. Mr. Trump essentially admitted he didn’t want more testing because it would result in more positives.
   And the virus rages on, having hit blue states first and now tearing through red states in the South and West—Arizona, Florida, the Carolinas, Texas.

A lot of that's wrong--but, again, it could be the storyline that's firming up. Nooners is still treating th' COVID as if it were Captain Trips, she's ignoring the fact that the Tulsa rally was sabotaged...and, in fact, that Trump's entire presidency has been sabotaged...but, of course, now it seems that Russiagate never happened...and Russiagategate is a "conspiracy theory" that the progressive MSM is assiduously discrediting and covering up... He who controls the extremely-recent past controls the present...

   And, of course, that the blue team has completely freakin' lost its mind, and is now the anti-Bill-of-Rights faction. Nooners really ought to mention that.

   But none of that makes Trump any less loony, nor any less fit for office. He doesn't even seem to be trying to pretend that he's making an effort to knock the rough edges off his weird, gratuitously abrasive personality. 

   Now, he's been deal a historically bad hand--exacerbated at every point by a massive effort--a conspiracy, really, though pretty much out in the open--by progressive institutions to make everything good seem bad and everything bad seem worse. But nobody knows that because few people ever know much of anything about what's going on. Currently conservatives know, because the truth is roughly in the conservatives' corner right now. So conservative media is getting a lot right. But most people, especially cultural progressives--read the front page of the NYT, listen to NPR, watch a bit of MSM teevee news, and think themselves well-informed... 

   Trump's a wreck. And he's been dealt a bad hand. And his characterological flaws have been exacerbated by all this. Which all made me swing farther against him until three facts became unignorable:

(a) The blue team fringe has gone stark, raving mad, and teeters on the edge of an even more violent, even more insane, extremism; and they aim to destroy our Constitutional republic.

(b) The blue team fringe is now running the blue team.

(c) All or most of our progressive institutions--which basically means all of our institutions--are lying and cheating to sink Trump.

   Bad as he is, (c) especially makes it imperative to support him--God help us. Though that's starting to look futile--God also help us.