19 October 2019

Unmoored

The Atlantic published an excellent essay yesterday (link here) about how Donald Trump is becoming increasingly erratic and unhinged and is likely to become all the more so as the impeachment noose closes around him.

All reports indicate Trump is increasingly isolated from anyone except for sycophants. He has no personal life to speak of, other than cheating at golf. "I think what we’re viewing, if you think about the human side of it, is the man has no life," the article quotes a close confidante. "He just has no life."

One is reminded of Richard Nixon in the darkest days of Watergate. He drank alone and heavily and wandered around the White House late at night, talking to portraits of former Presidents hanging on the walls.

One need only look at Trump to see how miserable he has become (example here). He also looks like he's completely zonked by sleep deprivation.

The silver lining to all this is that the more visibly unmoored Trump becomes, the more that will hurt him in next year's election. People who were fooled by him in 2016 will be far less inclined to be fooled a second time.

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