Posted on 10/16/2020 7:48:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rich Lowry has written a pre-postmortem of the 2020 election in which he argues that, should President Trump lose next month, "the story isn't going to be what was done to him, rather what he did to himself." Lowry contends that Trump routinely frames the election in dire, apocalyptic terms but then focuses so much of his messaging on personal vendettas that he is ultimately "letting his side down."
By his own admission, Lowry acknowledges that asking the president to "modulate" his behavior four years into office is "naive," and he is instead interested in defending NeverTrump Republicans from any possible recriminations should Joe Biden and the Democrats succeed. In what sounds like a historical allusion to the feelings of betrayal from German soldiers after WWI exploited by an incipient Nazi Party against German leadership, Lowry makes one point quite clear: a Trump loss will be his own doing, not the result of his having been "stabbed in the back" by establishment Republicans.
"Victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone," Tacitus observed two millennia ago. Only in the Trump Era, though, do establishment figures run from the prospect of victory just as heartily as they do from the stench of defeat. For Middle Americans who support the president, there is no doubt that a Biden victory will be recast as an indictment of President Trump's leadership of the Republican Party and an urgent call to hand the reins of the party back to such NeverTrump stalwarts as Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, and Michael Steele. Should President Trump once again prevail, his critics will minimize the result as due to his weak and ineffective opponent. In other words, the president's detractors have learned nothing since 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bush League Republicans still hope to regain the party that Trump took from them in a hostile takeover.
Now that we have seen strong leadership, Democrats in R jerseys just won’t cut it.
Trump should talk about what could have gotten done for the people if the dems didn’t waste so much time on the Russia hoax
Brilliant article. Somebody needs to tell Lowry you can’t go home again. The GOP coalition of Bush and Romney is gone forever.
It is dire and you if don’t think it is ,your a moron!
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