In a normal world, this would not be the description of a lucky man.
However, we do not live in such a world. One must consider the very real and infuriating possibility that Donald J. Trump is the luckiest politician in history.
For almost 10 years (it feels like much longer) we’ve watched him navigate minefields, teeter on the edge of sinkholes, and step on trapdoors, and each time we think: Ta. This is it. now he is depressed. It became a mantra of dashed hopes. The walls are closing in on Donald Trump (again). He is on the brink and is hopeless. This time, definitely this time. Yet somehow he escapes.
The latest example of Trump’s good fortune was Colorado’s decision to use a novel legal theory to bar him from the primary ballot, amidst all his other legal problems. The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Trump a 9-0 victory in Colorado, making him look even stronger.
Consider the good fortune that has come to him recently.
· Amid a major criminal trial looming over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, the Supreme Court on February 28th threw a lifeline to his immunity request, potentially putting the moment of reckoning past Election Day. There is a high possibility that it will go away.
· The felony election interference case against him in Georgia was thrown into disarray by hanky-panky prosecutors.
Trump was caught hiding secret government documents containing war plans in Florida, but somehow managed to get the very friendly Eileen M. Cannon to serve as a judge in the case last spring. did.
· During the campaign, Trump has been prone to bouts of incoherence that seem to suggest he is losing. But fortunately, the Justice Department has chosen the special counsel that President Trump appointed as Maryland’s attorney to investigate President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Prosecutors declined to press charges last month, arguing that Biden’s memory was failing.
This should feel like a familiar pattern by now.
In 2016, with less than two weeks until Trump’s election loss was certain, FBI Director James B. Comey made the decision to force Hillary Clinton to kneel.
When an audio recording of President Trump bragging about being able to grab women’s genitals was leaked during the 2016 campaign, his opponents were just talking. Already knew he’s done. They didn’t take into account Trump’s good fortune. It turns out that Trump’s evangelical supporters are willing to put their own morals on hold to win the election.
That year, Trump lost the popular vote by millions of votes, but was elected president through the electoral college system. Even he looked like an incredulous slot machine guy when the bell rang and the coins started flying.
In fact, Trump has been extremely lucky for his opponents. The 2016 Republican primary ended with Trump facing his only viable challenger. Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) was perhaps the most hated man in American politics. In the general election, Trump faced perhaps the only Democrat who could not beat him. This year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading non-Trump Republican hopeful, collapsed under the weight of his own hard work. And now, an overwhelming majority of voters believe that his 2024 presidential opponent, Mr. Biden (less than four years older than Mr. Trump), is too old to be given another term.
For years, experts have wondered when the Republican Party would break with Trump. What about after Charlottesville? After the loss in 2020? After January 6th? After he called for the abolition of the Constitution? But as we all know, President Trump was, to borrow H.L. Mencken’s memorable phrase, “nothing like a sheep about to bark,” a feeble resistance to his various outrages. I was very lucky with the quality of the layer.
By an extraordinary stroke of luck, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at a critical moment during Trump’s second impeachment trial, even though he was convinced of his guilt. Because he blinked, he was spared a conviction. Now it is Mr. McConnell who is heading into exile, and Mr. Trump is pushing toward the White House.
Then it disappeared. President Trump has repeatedly faced allegations that would have brought him down from office in any other politician, often haphazard and prone to deflection and distraction in an endless cycle of Whataboutism. However, I have been provided with useful counter-arguments. (Hunter Biden’s laptop comes to mind.)
Throughout his strangely fascinating political life, President Trump has benefited greatly from what political scientist Brian Klaas calls “insane mediocrity.” That’s because the political establishment has become increasingly numb to President Trump’s firehose of malice.
Mr. Trump is fortunate to have appeared on this occasion at a time when America’s memory has suffered from national amnesia, with politicians and voters alike unable to remember the last damn thing he said. I’m sure even people will be amazed.
For Trump, his rise to power has coincided with the collapse of much of the traditional fact-based media and the emergence of silos of alternative reality information that were necessary to shape his narrative. It must have felt almost providential and unveiling his rants, exaggerations and fabrications.
Now, despite all this (hand waving), Mr. Trump is trying to secure the Republican nomination for the third time, and most national polls show him leading President Biden in his bid to return to the White House. It is shown that
Is anyone there Until now Was this luck?