You know how you shake a snow globe, wait for the flitter to settle, and then shake it again? America has been trapped in Donald Trump’s snow globe for the past 6 ½ years. He shakes us up; we whirl around, recover from the dizziness, the dust settles, and then we wait for the next shaking. Not only has Trump been shaking the globe lately, we are having a bit of déjà vu. Instead of attacking a disabled writer, this time, he attacked stutterers. He then pulled out a reworked insult to the late Senator John McCain. Trump made light and fun of his horrific ordeal as a tortured prisoner of war, this time saying, about McCain’s thumbs down gesture to repeal Obamacare, “John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm up that day, remember? He goes ... like that. That was the end of that.” Simultaneously, he made a stilted thumbs-down gesture on stage in Iowa, mocking the late Senator. McCain spent 5 ½ years in a Vietnamese prison camp enduring torture that left him unable to lift his arms above his shoulders.
The old man must be exhausted
No one has ever accused Mr. Trump of being a great thinker, but this time, it is showing. Watching him stumble around on stage—with what he calls dance moves, rehashing overwrought jokes seemingly to amuse himself, has become even a bigger bore than in 2016. His effort yesterday to turn a District of Columbia Appellate court into a circus failed so miserably that he has decided to drag out that old saw, birtherism. This time, his target is not former President Barack Obama, who, on more than one occasion, he said he is running against, but fellow Republican Nikki Haley. Hiding behind the skirts of his Truth Social platform, he reposted A Gateway Pundit statement positing:
Haley is not constitutionally eligible to be president because her parents were not US citizens when she was born in South Carolina.
As with his Obama birtherism claims, this nonsense from a man bereft of ideas, character, or morals was not unexpected. Mr. Trump never misses a chance to disparage a person of color, their accomplishments, or their heritage to solidify the racist in his base. One can only hope the former South Carolina Governor is asked about Mr. Trump’s wild accusation during tonight’s debate. If so, seeing her tying herself into a knot in real-time will be interesting. Keeping her lips firmly attached to the backside of the MAGA(s) while hoping the moderates she desperately needs are watching a Friends rerun.
Tonight’s debate will be Haley’s last televised chance to cut into what has been reported as a sizeable lead by Mr. Trump before the Iowa caucus. Politicians moving to the respective right or left of their parties in primaries is a standard strategy. Once the nominations are decided, moving to the center is the traditionally preferred tactic. Haley, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy introduced a novel tactic—running for 2028. Mr. Trump has effectively turned the Grand Old Party into an immoral clone of himself. Too afraid to confront him and too scared to beat him. If, as expected, the race is between President Biden and a possible convicted felon, if Biden wins and America survives, that will be the last gasp of the Republican party.
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