Trump isn’t going to defeat himself
The president’s approval is at his personal best. Democrats can’t just expect him to lose in November—they need a plan to win
After Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was indicted, humorist Garrison Keillor wrote a tongue-in-cheek column titled “Donald Trump is done.” Keillor satirized the sense of triumphalism that arises among liberals every time our corrupt, sleazy president gets embroiled in a fresh scandal—a silly self-assuredness that this could be the one that finally does him in:
He is NOT A NICE PERSON and so the name Trump is as popular as herpes these days. Trumpet players have taken up the cornet. Card players refer to the lead suit as the jump suit. Tramps prefer to be called hoboes, town dumps are now refuse heaps, and girls named Dawn are becoming Cheryls.
This was back in 2017, but the piece is evergreen because the mentality that Keillor skewered persists.
Washington Monthly declared that “Trump is finished” in 2018, when it was revealed that Michael Cohen had actually gone to Prague like the Steele Dossier alleged. He was “finished” again in 2019 in the wake of Lev Parnas’ “bombshell” revelations.
