Brian Beutler: “Democrats might lose this twilight battle to drive Trump out of the body politic, and if they do, they’ll scour the devastation for the governing failure or political error that did them in. Was it inflation? Was it ‘wokeism’? Was it Biden’s age?”
“But if it happened today, my money would be on this explanation: Their choices and emphases allowed the human process of forgetting to proceed as normal.
And that in turn has allowed Trump to gain advantage, or narrow his disadvantage, on things like temperament and fitness for office that should be his defining liabilities.”