A lot of people are talking about Tucker Carlson’s monologue tonight. More than anything else, it was directed at Donald Trump. I urge you to watch it. It’s about 16 minutes long, but it’s well worth your time. I haven’t seen anything yet that captures the current mood of the Right like this:

Tucker makes the obvious (to everyone but Trump) point that people have a right to expect their government to protect them from rioters — and their government is not doing so. When bad people see weakness in authority, they take advantage of it. This, by the way, is how the woke took over college campuses. This is how the woke took over media.

See this:

Cubans warned Venezuelans and now the Venezuelans are warning Americans that we shouldn’t sit idly by while our statues burn, street are renamed, and school curriculum is taken over. https://t.co/yLRTrLmN5s

— Ana Rosa Quintana (@ana_r_quintana) June 22, 2020

It’s happening, and the president is impotent. Trump was on a Hannity-hosted forum tonight. Look at this short clip. It tells you why he’s losing. The country is in serious trouble, and he’s like a child who has fallen off a sailboat far from shore:

Trump: If we didn’t do testing, we’d have no cases… There are so many names to this, I could name 19 names like Corona 19. pic.twitter.com/cuNlLhHP6I

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 26, 2020

Peggy Noonan’s new column is brutal. Here’s how it starts:

Something shifted this month. Donald Trump’s hold on history loosened, and may be breaking. In some new way his limitations are being seen and acknowledged, and at a moment when people are worried about the continuance of their country and their own ability to continue within it. He hasn’t been equal to the multiple crises. Good news or bad, he rarely makes any situation better. And everyone kind of knows.

On Wednesday a Siena College/New York Times poll found Joe Biden ahead 50% to 36%. It’s a poll four months out, but it’s a respectable one and in line with others. (A week before, a Fox News poll had Mr. Biden leading 50% to 38%. The president denounced it as a fantasy.) This week’s poll had Mr. Biden leading among women by 22 points—a bigger lead than Hillary Clinton enjoyed in 2016. He has moderates by 33 points, independents by 21. On Thursday a separate Times/Siena poll had Mr. Trump losing support in the battleground states that put him over the top in 2016. His “once-commanding advantage among white voters has nearly vanished,” the Times wrote.

More:

Nobody knows what’s coming. On New Year’s Eve we couldn’t imagine the pandemic, economic contraction and protests. We don’t know what will happen in the next four months, either. I believe in the phenomenon of silent Trump voters, people who don’t tell anyone, including pollsters, that they’re for him because they don’t want to be hassled. But eight, 10 or 14 points worth? No.

Good news or bad, he rarely makes any situation better. And everyone kind of knows.

There are plenty of people who are still plan to vote for Trump because they are afraid of the Democrats in power. But I don’t know anybody who is planning to vote for Trump who thinks he has done a good job and merits a second term. As Tucker Carlson said tonight in his powerful monologue, the crises this year should have played to Donald Trump’s strengths. That is, the strengths he sounded like he had. But it was all bluster. Noonan is right: when he was put to the test, repeatedly, he failed.

When a Republican presidential candidate has these kinds of numbers in Texas, four months before an election, you know things are really, really bad:

Again, watch the Tucker Carlson monologue from tonight, and consider: if things are so disordered with Trump in the White House now, just a few months before the election, in a time when he has every incentive to get tough on these rioters, what confidence can Republican voters have that a second Trump term would improve the situation?

Trump tweeted this earlier today:

Black Lives Matter leader states, “If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it”. This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2020

The black man who said that on Fox News is not formally affiliated with BLM, according to a BLM spokesperson. Be that as it may, if Trump really believed that BLM members, or any of these rioters, are guilty of treason, sedition, and insurrection, then why is he only tweeting about it? He’s not only an old man sitting at home watching Fox and sending out tweets. He’s also the President of the United States. For the next few months, anyway.