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For a year now, there’s been a myth among Republicans: the Legend of Trump.It goes something like this. Once upon a time, there was an unbeatable candidate, a world-famous politician whose husband had been president, who received unquestioning loyalty from the media. Then came the Dragonslayer: a real-estate mogul with a toilet of gold and a tongue of iron, who cut the unconquerable evil queen down to size and seized the throne from her. The laws of political gravity simply didn’t apply to him: He could utter any vulgarity, brazen through any scandal, batter down any media infrastructure. And if Republicans followed him — if they lit their torches from his — they too could slay dragons.Now, it’s quite possible that Donald Trump was the only Republican who could have defeated Hillary Clinton —other Republicans might have tried to take the high ground with a candidate significantly dirtier than the local garbage dump. Trump has no tact and no compunction, so he was always willing to drag her off her high horse. But Trump truly won not because he was a stellar candidate — far from it — but because Hillary Clinton was an awful candidate. And this means not only that his dragonslaying isn’t duplicable, but also that other candidates with similarly shady backgrounds who attempt to imitate him will end up failing dramatically . . .. . . Moore was already in a dogfight before the sexual-abuse allegations. And he attempted to Trump his way out of those allegations: He stonewalled, he insisted it was all a media witch hunt, he shouted “establishment†over and over. He even called in the Dragonslayer himself, who tweeted from on high and rallied on the Alabama border. And Moore lost.Trumpism, it turns out, isn’t a philosophy. It’s just a man who ran and won against the most unpalatable candidate in modern American history. That’s an incredible accomplishment. It’s not a strategy . . .. . . Democrats had a similar legend until 2016: the Legend of Barack and Hillary. The Tea Party slew it long before Democrats were willing to acknowledge its death; 2016 was the final blow to the leftist mythology. Legends in politics never fade away: They die violent deaths. Republicans can learn their lesson now or they can take their lumps later.
I agree that Moore could have beaten Hillary Clinton.....
Hilarious Rodent Clinton was a terrible enough candidate that you could have beaten her---with both your arms removed. (Not that a nice guy like you would have wanted to run to becomethe don of the nation's largest organised crime family . . . )
A new meaning to "A call to Arms"?
