Trump's Political Suicide

 Trump lost an election  which his opponents did a whole lot to help him win. From America hating socialist poster children in congress to the green new deal to the politically correct cancel culture to false and insulting accusations that white Americans as a class were bigots (“systematic racism”) to their  governors and mayors appearing just a little too giddy over their power to shut  things down and boss people around  during  the epidemic to the plans to eliminate or defund local police, the Dems gave ammunition to the Republicans who took advantage of it to make gains in the house, hold the senate (assuming at least one win in Georgia), and do well in state elections despite having Trump hanging around their necks.

  Trump did not lose because of his administration’s actions or policies.  Some were good and some were bad, but none was enough to make him unacceptable to conservative or centrist voters in a contest against a typical big government Democrat. He did not lose because of bad luck, despite the covid epidemic. (A better president could have handled the epidemic in ways  that would not have harmed him politically.)  He did not lose because of the strength of his opponent. Biden was neither an appealing candidate nor an effective campaigner. Unlike other defeated elected incumbents since the start of the 20^th Century, he did not lose because of very bad times in the country or votes lost to an important third party challenger.

He lost because of himself, because of his obnoxious personality and repulsive behavior.  After being elected in 2016, he had almost four years to learn to how to behave like a president.  He surely must have been told by advisors that he needed to do so. Yet he didn’t even manage to behave like an ordinary  grown up, much less a president of the United States.   He remained mean, arrogant, blustering, bullying, expressively ignorant, erratic, bombastic, overbearing, unthinking, and unlikeable to the end, and he displayed it in public.  He wasn’t murdered politically. He committed suicide.

He was a mistake from the first. He won in 2016 because he was not Hillary Clinton, something other and actually qualified Republican candidates also could have done. I think a lot of people who have no use for Biden and think he will be a bad president still have a gut feeling of relief that that they won’t have to see or listen to Trump anymore.  I would guess that among them are a lot of Republican senators, governors, and congressmen. I am one libertarian who feels the same way.