Trump's Luck and Mojo Run Low
At last, former President Donald Trump is on trial, a criminal defendant for election interference, in silencing a sordid brush with Stormy Daniels. The judge, Juan Merchan, made clear he's in charge here.
A harbinger of spring light in the American soul after a long winter occupation? Let it be so.
April is turning out as the cruelest month for the Republican presidential contender. The actual president, meanwhile, acts presidential, handling foreign policy crises like a seasoned pro.
I think Trump knows it.
But his legions of followers don't. So the show must go on till the end, dividing Americans into Us vs. Them. Just like Frederick Douglass, as Trump once said, he's doing an "amazing job." His great gift is polarizing the body politic and, let's be honest, bringing out the base in us.
The bitter, twisted glare on his face now reveals a man living a life of loud desperation. Trump is shrewd and canny enough to know when the con is up. He is asking aides what prison will be like. Making license plates and all.
Let us review. Trump is slipping in the polls against President Joe Biden. His Truth Social media stock is plunging. Biden is raising more money. Arizona's new harsh abortion ban (from a frontier 1864 law) will cream him with women voters.
The best part is that Trump is aware Arizona just pitched a wild game-changing election loser.
Bragging about naming three Supreme Court members to deny human rights for women and girls has backfired beautifully. The three Trump appointees acted swiftly to strike down reproductive freedom at the first chance, defying their sworn Senate testimony.
The Republican John Roberts Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022, a bellwether moment.
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