The Dodgers lost four straight playoff games to the Milwaukee Brewers in a humiliating end to their season. Steve Hilton lost to Xavier Becerra in the race for governor before “Jeopardy” aired. President Trump lost early, late and often Tuesday night in the midterm elections.
In contests across the country — for governor, for Senate, for the House — he had told people to vote as if he was on the ballot. They did, and Democrats ran the table, taking the House and then the Senate. Trump lost big, inspected the wreckage, and claimed the problem was lousy candidates.
I would have expected him to say the election was stolen. But maybe he realized that for all intents and purposes, his political career is over. Trump was trounced, the country triumphed, and the long national nightmare is over, but for the rest of his lame duck presidency.
I don’t think we were witnessing a national love affair with Democrats, nor do I think Tuesday night’s winning political party has all the answers on any of the day’s pressing matters. The Dems have their own problems, including an identity crisis and a shortage of bankable presidential prospects. But the country’s voters signaled loud and clear that they’re tired of: Last week I turned on the news and saw Trump making fun of the name of newly elected Michigan Sen.
Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim. An awful thing to see a president do, but here’s what’s worse: Then I saw him say at a political rally that he had looked at a man’s rear end, “and I’ve never done that before…Off the record, women, yes, men no, OK?” He once mocked the physical appearance of a female presidential primary foe, as well as the wife of a male foe, and insisted for years that the first Black president was secretly from Africa. Trump had always been able to get away with this sort of numbskullery.
His true believers were willing to put up with it as long as he seemed true to his promise of working on their behalf. Until they could no longer deny that he was only working on his own behalf. The cryptocurrency profiteering.
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