February 10, 2020
Pelosi Is Down but Not Out
By Christopher Skeet
In every sense of the word, Trump absolutely killed it last Tuesday at the SOTU. Sitting behind President Trump, watching him master the room, the grimace of Pelosi's face betrayed the culmination of a dawning revelation that unsettled her, and it was this: Trump is really, really good at this. Optics. Stagecraft. Working the crowd. On a stage, he's untouchable.
All her political prowess at crunching poll numbers, strong-arming legislation, and setting media narratives felt impotent. For the first time, Pelosi comprehended not only the potential of Trump's ingenuity, but also the fact that she had been decisively outmaneuvered by it. For the first time, Pelosi realized Trump was not the incompetent harlequin her sycophants snottily assured her he was, but rather a skilled operator with an instinct for reading the mood of a crowd and, indeed, of a nation. But the owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk, and for Pelosi, her revelation may have came too late.
So there she sat, the empress with no clothes, having been de-robed by her own thankless impeachment-crazed minions and now exposed on national television. There she sat, watching her own party of curmudgeons sit stone-faced as the president beamed optimism and confidence, rattled off employment gains for women and minorities, reunited a military family, rescued a child from a failing government school, and honored Rush Limbaugh. There she sat, a day after the Iowa caucus spectacle, and a day before her adopted sham impeachment sputtered to an inglorious demise. There she sat, understanding that while McConnell's shrewdness surely didn't help her, nor the falling on their own Nerf swords of rodeo clowns Schiff and Nadler, the one person most responsible for her current predicament is Donald John Trump Senior.
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