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Trump’s Twitter Madness

Memorial Day 2020: 100K dead, 40M unemployed. The US president is picking childish fights on Twitter
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He’s talking about Joe Scarborough. We have reached a point in American politics where the President of the United States can accuse a man of murder (for the fourth time on Twitter), and nobody much notices, because the President is such a crazy, say-anything buffoon that nothing he says surprises or shocks.

We arrive at Memorial Day Weekend with 100,000 dead from a pandemic, yet the man-child in the Oval Office finds it more urgent to carry out a grotesque feud with a television host. In a normal country, this kind of thing would spark a political crisis. But we aren’t a normal country anymore.

Trump has also been active on Twitter these past few days trying to sabotage the campaign of Jeff Sessions, his former Attorney General, to return to the US Senate. Ann Coulter has unleashed the fires of hell on Trump over it. Coulter recognizes that Sessions was the real deal on immigration reform, but Trump, of course, got rid of him because Sessions actually believed he should be loyal to the rule of law, not to the president personally. In this series of tweets, Coulter recalls how Trump spoiled what should have been an easy win for the GOP in the race to replace Sessions (who had resigned to become Trump’s AG) by coming out for the seriously flawed Judge Roy Moore (‘memba him, the jailbait stuff?) instead of the candidate preferred by the Republican establishment. Thus did a Democrat flip a Republican safe Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama. Coulter is afraid Trump, out of personal pique, is about to do the same thing, returning Democrat Doug Jones to Washington. Gaze upon these fireballs, would you?:

 

Believe it or not, there’s more, at her Twitter feed.

Look, I get it: But Biden!™ is a serious point. There will be a lot of conservatives who hate the way Trump behaves, but who find it an easier pill to swallow than four years of Custard-Brain Biden releasing an army of little SJW Robespierres throughout the federal government. But there will also be some conservatives who can’t stand Biden, but who are so disgusted with Trump, and discouraged by the prospect of four more years of this stupidity and self-owning chaos, that they either don’t vote, or vote third party. Or, they will be considering the long run, and thinking about whether four more years of Trump will discredit in the eyes of most voters the populist-nationalist causes that got Trump elected.

I mean, honestly, of all the political fights to have right now, with 100,000 dead from the virus and 40 million unemployed, accusing a TV host of murder, and trying to knock Jeff Sessions out of the Alabama Senate race? Really? It’s deranged. If the Republicans lose the White House (and the Senate) this November, it will all be on the head of one man: Donald J. Trump.

UPDATE: A couple of you have rightly pointed out that Trump didn’t initially endorse Roy Moore, but the appointed incumbent, Luther Strange. I could have this wrong, but I seem to recall that there was a conservative US Representative in the GOP primary, the kind of figure that could have easily beat Doug Jones had he won the nomination. Trump’s endorsement of the lame Establishment Republican over the GOP Representative split the mainstream GOP primary vote, allowing Roy Moore to win, and go on to be whipped by the Democrat in the general.

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