Bleeding More Than Money

Created
Sat, 23/03/2024 - 00:00
Updated
Sat, 23/03/2024 - 00:00
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for “The man is mentally unstable,” I told my parents over dinner at their kitchen table in 2016. I could not bring myself to believe that Americans were crazy enough to elect a president as unfit as Donald Trump so obviously was. But H.L. Mencken was right a hundred years ago. I don’t wish to make that mistake again. Nonetheless, Republican primary results and the drip-drip of bad legal and financial news for Trump and his 2024 campaign seems to indicate he is losing support. Perhaps it is Trump fatigue. Perhaps his small-donor base is tapped out; his fundraising is ebbing. Perhaps Earth 1 is finally breaking through to the least-committed members of the cult. Trump lately is alternately begging for money and boasting that he doesn’t need any. The Biden-Harris campaign and the DNC are lapping Trump and Team MAGA. If fundraising is a measure of support, Trump’s is slowly sinking. Then again, is still costs nothing to cast a vote, and MAGA minions are busily plotting to steal the fall election. With that caveat…. “It makes me wonder about all those stories telling us how unenthusiastic Democrats are about Biden’s reelection,” writes Eugene Robinson. “I’m starting to think that maybe — hear me out — we should pay less attention to what people say and more to what they actually do.” The Biden campaign can be excused for a bit of chest-thumping. “If Donald Trump put up these kinds of numbers…