Bill Otis (a friend at second hand), writing at Ringside at the Roundup:
What Trump was onto specifically is that American elites are suffused with rot. If they don’t hate the country exactly, they look down on it. If they don’t buy routine race-huckstering, they decline any serious action to defeat it. If they don’t don’t wear the mantle of Wokeness, they’re too cowardly to resist it. And if they see the danger in ubiquitous lowered standards, they’re too weak to stand up for high ones.
Jeffrey Blehar, writing at NRO:
It is the compulsive nature of Trump’s behavior that makes it so exhausting. My primary takeaway from the FBI raid was that Trump is a man who grasps reflexively, claims what he believes or wishes were his and holds onto it long past the limits of common sense or any greater sense of loyalty to civic norms, the rule of law, or the party he seeks to lead. That is the real tragedy, because whatever substantive achievements Trump may have had as president, he has proven over time only to be as good as his guardrails. His guardrails are largely gone now.
I’m no movie buff, but day by day the 45th President looks more and more like Norma Desmond or, on a more elevated level, like Sophocles’s Ajax.
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