Trump may talk himself out of the White House
By John Podhoretz
September 24, 2020 | 7:44pm | Updated
Let’s take a minute and imagine — or pretend — that President Trump has a grand strategy governing his campaign. That offers a chance to provide the only remotely positive gloss that can be applied to his dumbfounding refusal to say point blank there would be a “peaceful transition of power†after the election.
The grand strategy would be “The Scramble.â€
Old guys like me have fond memories of the scrambling quarterback Fran Tarkenton, who would get himself in trouble in the backfield, run backward 20 yards, then run forward 25 yards — and score a small gain after a huge self-created melodrama.
If the president wins this election in November, he will prove himself to be the Fran Tarkenton of politics.
In the “peaceful transition†case, as in past cases, Trump gets himself into self-created jams that cause his ideological and partisan rivals to swarm him deep in his own territory — with the hope of somehow both exhausting them and eluding them and finishing on the upside.
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