Donald Trump is beating himself. If he were a baseball team, he would be the team that commits four errors, loses five runners to pick-offs or caught stealing incidents, and whose pitchers commit balks. If he were a football team, his team would be penalized frequently and have an inordinate number of funbles and interceptions. If he were a basketball team he would commit lots of fouls and throw the ball away several times. Winning teams don't do that.
He is not doing the fundamentals of politics well, and it shows.
He is not doing the fundamentals of politics well, and it shows.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.