In a normal universe, this would not be the description of a fortunate man.
But we do not live that universe, & we must consider the very real — & infuriating — possibility that #Trump is the single luckiest politician who ever lived.
For almost a decade (though it feels even longer), we’ve watched him trip through minefields, totter on the edge of sinkholes & step on trapdoors, each time thinking: This is it. Now he’s going down.
It has become a mantra of dashed hopes: The walls are (once again) closing in on #Trump. He’s on the brink, desperate. This time, surely this time. And yet, somehow, he escapes.
…In his oddly charmed #political life, Trump has benefited mightily from what political scientist Brian Klaas calls the “banality of crazy,” as the body politic has grown increasingly numb to Trump’s fire hose of malice.
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