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Democrats Are Helping Trump Become the Luckiest President Ever
Impeachment won’t get rid of him and his 2020 opponents care more about the left than beating him.
Donald Trump has been called the most incompetent, most dishonest, and most dangerous president in the history of the United States and there is a growing stack of evidence to suggest that all those things may be true. But he may also be the luckiest, which is why it would be foolhardy to bet against his re-election, impeachment or no impeachment.
Trump’s early good fortune had nothing to do with politics: born to more wealth than his persistent mismanagement could dissipate; reaching adulthood at a time when television rewarded the vacuous and tabloids were willing to build celebrity out of hype and bluster; gaining recognition at a time when the persistent strain of U.S. anti-intellectualism was reasserting itself, Trump and the culture merged.
For many voters Trump had become an avatar, the voice of their grievances, the embodiment of a rebellion against being dismissed and insulted for their resistance to new cultural norms about speech, race, gender, and sexual identity. Even more, he seemed to understand the impact of the economic inequality and globalization that had in combination reduced them to second-class citizens…
