Noah Rothman: Trump Throws Vance and Rubio Under the Bus

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Dude was elected for basically one reason... He had one job:  Don't be the Democrats.

Well, also a subsidiary one: Roll back what the Democrats have done over the past 10-15 years.

   I don't think it was stupid of him to take his shot at Iran. It also wasn't obviously smart... But it thrust him into exactly the role he cannot handle, and seems to have botched as bad as it could possibly be botched. When the going gets tough, he becomes just a random word generator. He says wildly, obviously false and inconsistent things. He's just a wreck.

   The TDS crowd refuses to acknowledge his strengths and accomplishments--of course, being generally on the left, they have legitimate grounds for seeing those accomplishments as...whatever the opposite of accomplishments is... Bad accomplishments, or whatever.

   The fawning Trumpistas (of which there are many fewer) refuse to acknowledge his glaring weaknesses. But there's no getting an accurate view of the guy without acknowledging both. 

   The Iran debacle--assuming that's what it actually is--has really brought out and highlighted his weaknesses. One of which: he seems utterly incapable of acknowledging defeat--or even his own errors.