This week, President Trump went to battle with Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson. Johnson's husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, was killed in Niger earlier this month. Trump called his widow to offer his condolences. But Myeshia Johnson apparently interpreted that call as a callously indifferent attempt to curry favor. She conveyed her displeasure to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., who promptly went public with it. Trump responded to Johnson's anger not with compassion but with indignation: He stated that he had never been callous toward her.
The most likely explanation for this hubbub is misinterpretation on one or both sides. The chances that Trump wanted to offend Johnson are slim and none. But it's not politically or morally wise for Trump to begin a public firefight with a grieving widow.
So why are so many Republicans cheering him on? Because there are many on the right who believe that Trump simply cannot lose, that he has the political Midas touch. Their evidence: Trump said impolitic, offensive and boorish things regularly on the campaign trail in 2016, and he then won the election over Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, Democrats seem to believe that they need to offer no alternative to Trump's governing vision, that they can simply stand on the sidelines and scream at him. Thus, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, claims that Trump has staffed his White House with white supremacists; and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., says that she wants to "take out" Trump. Democrats' evidence for their obvious belief that Trump will certainly fall in 2020 is that Trump's approval ratings are abysmal and he lost the popular vote in 2016. Democrats see 2016 as a complete fluke.
Both sides, however, are wrong.
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2017/10/25/the-delusional-optimism-of-both-sides-n2399745
