Good luck with that Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign over three months ago. The lackluster announcement kick-off event was held at his Mar-a-Lago beach club in front of a small crowd of people, many of whom were reportedly trying to get out of the room halfway through his speech, but security refused to allow it. Some of his most loyal insiders didn’t attend at all, notably, including offspring Don Jr. and Ivanka while the networks, including Fox News, cut away part way through his rambling “low-energy” spiel. Everyone agreed that this announcement didn’t come close to the bedazzled golden escalator pageant of 2016. So was that the best the great political impresario could do these days? At the very least it seemed quite clear that he was out of practice. The two years he’d spent ruminating over the Big Lie and attempting to play kingmaker from afar had left him rusty. People were blaming the defeat of the midterms on his endorsements of election denier MAGA candidates and the whispers of “loser, loser, loser” were getting louder. It almost seemed as if he was … depressed, something I don’t think anyone has seen before. I had assumed that in order to get his energy up he would jump right into his patented rallies. He’d done a few during the midterm campaign for his endorsees but they seemed a bit desultory as well. He never does well when he’s forced to talk up someone other than himself. But he hasn’t done…