My Latest

My Latest NY Times comment -

  In very general terms, Trump entered the race last year and was highly regarded as a joke candidate. Recall Jon Stewart or any number of comedians salivating at the idea of a Trump campaign knowing full well that the man was the source material for endless jokes and laughter.

  Over time the media attention and in particular in my mind, the violence at his rallies seemed to change the perception of Trump. He went from joke to feared demagogue and worse, someone who would unleash ‘the basket of deplorables’ on America. He would give demagogic approval to the deplorables to force more violence, more hate, more irrationality, more divisiveness, and be free of thoughtful careful policy, fine character, basic reasonable decorum, and even the fundamental human emotions of empathy and compassion.

  Right now I think there’s another shift occurring. He is indeed the laughingstock, he is the joke source. It's back. The media is less enthralled with his potential validity as a candidate. We’ve gotten more familiar with his supporters and understanding little by little what they seek and why, and how they learned these things. That divide remains, Trump added fuel to it and this is his miserable legacy. The debate was the exclamation point though. Trump is utterly unprepared, utterly ill informed, utterly ill tempered, he’s seeks revenge over embarrassing sideshow escapades and pours endless effort into them. It's pathetic.

NY Times: No Debate That Hillary Clinton’s Polling Numbers Are Improving by Nate Cohn