Can you smell the fear on the GOP?
Molly Jong-Fast reflects on Robert Hur’s hit job. Democrats freaked out about the special counsel’s gratuitous comments about Joe Biden’s memory. The press obsessed over it. Republicans redistributed theories that Biden might drop out and Michelle Obama might step in. Biden himself has responded with jokes about his age.
Jong-Fast writes (Vanity Fair):
Now, I understand why everyone’s so anxious; another Trump presidency could be the end of American democracy. But there’s also a reason why Republicans are so obsessed with trying to get Biden to drop out. It’s not because they are concerned about Biden’s mental acuity; it’s because they know that incumbency is a huge advantage and the economy is picking up. (Meanwhile, Trump is trying to look like an incumbent president—while taking credit, somehow, for the stock market’s rise.)
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The media’s decision to seize on bad polls, especially around Biden’s age, has ratcheted up Democrats’ nerves for months. Yet polls have been wrong before. Remember the red wave of 2022? Never happened. Biden may not be sexy, but he’s sturdy and he’s running against someone who has confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. Biden will need to prove to voters that he’s up to the job, but as for the pundit class, he owes us nothing.
Democrats must learn 1) to play offense, and 2) to counterpunch. Keep Republicans staggering and cornered.
The Lincoln Project has Donald Trump’s number. They know where it hurts.
As Democrat Tom Suozzi did in the New York special election, they are going straight at Trumpian sabotage of immigration reform and MAGA Republicans’ complicity.
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And Republican attacks on Biden’s mental acuity? Trump lives in a house of glass. The Lincoln Project is not shy about throwing stones.
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Trump has lived most of his life shielded by his daddy’s wealth and the Potemkin image he’s built that he is a highly successful, self-made billionaire. Then he stuck his hairsprayed head out far enough to get a taste of what Hillary Clinton endured for decades from critics. Now the indicted former illegitimate member of the Forbes 400 is a legitimate target in a political free-fire zone.
He’s not too happy about it.
Rick Wilson has the luxury of not being a politician having to appeal to voters. But his brush-offs of Trump and his MAGA cultists are still instructive. MAGA-mind is all about dominance and testosterone. And a deep insecurity that what they got ain’t enough. It’s why they amass arsenals. Wilson knows where the soft spots are and punches.
The mirror on his wall tells Trump (and MAGA men) he’s the least manly of all. Go there.
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