BETTER TO BE INCOMPETENT, THAN OBVIOUSLY CRAZY
Things aren’t going well for Trump among the electorate. He’s slipping in nearly every metric. He just hit his highest national disapproval rating yet.
Functionally speaking, the midterms look bad. I’m not sure why Trump doesn’t appear more urgent other than his striking penchant for inexhaustible confidence. Losing the House would be sad but predictable, while losing the Senate would be catastrophic.
The House of Trump is teetering. The brothers have been doing all sorts of … deals. It hasn’t escaped the notice of other Republicans even. It won’t escape the notice of new Senate leadership. Impeachments are the least of it.
Imagine Biden’s foreign grift but 1000x worse.
And what’s the upshot of all this? What’s propelling Trump’s confidence?
In part, despite the cascade of disappointments, it has to be that the electorate still has a dimmer opinion of Democrats. Dim is a bit understated.
As conservative economist Stephen Moore put it, “Voters may not love Republicans, but increasingly, they fear Democrats.”
Machiavelli coined the term, “better to be feared than loved.” He elucidated further by saying that constant fear would eventually lead to instability, but you get the point.
Hellbound and Down 