You never know in politics. You never know when the dam will break, a bill will pass, a leader goes from invincible to scorned. But somehow these last weeks I feel like the ridiculousness of Trump, his extremism, buffoonery, corruption and just abject abandonment of the American creed has broken through, become harder to ignore; that a growing number of people have come to understand that yes indeed our Orange Emperor has no clothes.
As we often discuss here this can be true at the same time Trump becomes more dangerous; and in fact I think these things are related. As his failure and ridiculousness becomes harder to ignore he grows more wild, more impulsive, more desperate for the “spectacular” and more autocratic.
Perhaps we will call it the vicious cycle of a failing strongman. That the wild escalation we are seeing this week is due not to his STRENGTH and POWER but to his impossible to ignore failures and weakness.
