Trump may be following Palins trajectory

[struggle4progress]

PEGGY NOONAN
The Wall Street Journal
11:41AM October 21, 2017

The US President has been understandably confident in his supporters ... They see his roughness as evidence of his authenticity, so he doesn’t freak them out every day. In this they are like Sarah Palin’s supporters, who saw her lack of intellectual polish as proof of sincerity. At her height, in 2008, she had almost the entire Republican Party behind her, and was pushed forward most forcefully by those who went on to lead Never Trump. But in time she lost her place through antic statements, intellectual thinness and general strangeness.

The same may well happen — or be happening — with Donald Trump.

One reason is that there is no hard constituency in America for political incompetence, and that is what he continues to demonstrate ...

... He thwarts himself daily with his dramas ... He gives his own supporters no cover. They back him at some personal cost ... He leaves them exposed by indulging whatever desire seizes him — to lash out, to insult, to say bizarre things ...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/trump-may-be-following-palins-trajectory/news-story/432782c9563eb2b76e9af2f2c365b1e0

He's supposed to be an empty suit running interference for the wingnuts, not an empty suit bouncing off the walls!

[RKP5637]

1. Trump, an empty suit under an empty head. n/t

[Girard442]

2. "...there is no hard constituency in America for political incompetence..."

Ummm... Peggy. That would be stupid people. I don't think we're running out anytime soon.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. I've been thinking this for a while in the context of how this all ends.

When Palin quit, she blamed the ethics investigations into her finances and said that she could do more on the outside - basically the political version of a child picking up his or her toys and going home.

I think Trump does the same thing, only citing the Russia stuff. You can already see him laying the groundwork in his tweets.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. Republicans will never turn on Trump. Russia has too many of them over a barrel.

[Tobin S.]

5. How many Republicans have lost the support of the Wall St. journal in recent years?

Republicans are their guys, right? I rarely read anything from them. Is there usually liberal representation on their Op-Ed pages?

[MiniMe]

6. "she had almost the entire Republican Party behind her"

I'm not so sure about that. I think McCain lost a lot of votes because of Caribou Barbie. The thought that she could end up as Pres if anything happened to McCain. I think that scared a lot of people to death, and McCain was not a young man, and had a history of cancer.

[uponit7771]

7. Trump is worse than Palin, at least she knew Alaska politics Trussia only knows how to grift

[Boomerproud]

8. Peggy, dear, "we" voted for your St. Ronnie twice, remember?

Don't talk to me about incompetence.

[Doreen]

9. There is a difference between the two.

Trump is a white male. Palin may be white but she is a female. White males can get away with the crap those two have done and is doing for a much longer time.

[Tobin S.]

10. I think Palin would be a better president than Trump. She was on par with W.

She did not like those Russkies, no-sir-ee. She at least had that going for her.

I see what you are saying. If Palin were president right now and exhibiting the kind of behavior that Trump is, she might have been removed by her own party by now in favor of her likely male vice president.

[Doreen]

11. Yeah, she does not like the Russkies.

She can see what they do from her house.