I’ve said it many times: the person who can master Donald Trump’s appeal to disaffected voters but without his serial mendacity, absurdly overblown rhetoric and tendency to go off on irrelevant tangents will have a real shot at the presidency. Trump won in 2016 despite those and many other detriments and four years later added about 10 million votes to his previous total despite a four-year campaign by much of the news media to get him out of office by fair means or foul. That election wasn’t “stolen,” but no one pretends that the commentariat or the press generally made the least effort to be “fair and balanced.”
It’s the metastasis of Trump Derangement Syndrome.