Trump, Biden, Hunter, Chaos From the WSJ's Henninger

[question everything]

(they are finally facing the truth)

(snip)

So what has the president done since the bizarre first presidential debate to turn the turnips in his direction?

To reassure their concerns on Covid-19, he called Anthony Fauci an “idiot.” Dr. Fauci is a maddening media hog, but why would an 11th-hour assault on a nominal leader of his own coronavirus team do anything for the president but subtract votes?

Even Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters acknowledge the reality of ambivalence about the president’s routine belligerence. At a recent Pennsylvania rally, Mr. Trump called out to suburban women: “Will you please like me?” Within days of asking undecided women to vote for him, he calls the Bidens “a criminal family.” Appalling swamp creatures, perhaps, but the Gambinos?

Outside the world of Never Trumpers, it has been difficult not to marvel at Mr. Trump’s refusal to bow to political convention. But one evident price for this persistent anti-convention is that from day one, and despite a quite remarkable record of economic vitality, his presidential approval rating has never crossed 50%. Why not? Again, the Biden campaign’s not-irrational conclusion is that Mr. Trump simply rubs enough of the American public the wrong way to ensure his inability to win re-election.

So it is not unreasonable to wonder if the president has decided that if he’s going down, it will be in a final Trumpian blaze of invective and defiance.

The undecided turnips can’t go to sleep until they resolve what the 2020 election has come down to: Is hating Trump enough? Is disapproval of a president’s personality sufficient reason to transfer power to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party? For some, and this includes voters who admire most of Mr. Trump’s policies, the blunt answer is yes. Many of them have a personal final-straw story, for instance Mr. Trump’s shabby dismissal of former Defense Secretary and Marine Gen. Jim Mattis.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-biden-hunter-chaos-11603315696 (subscription)

[grumpyduck]

1. "Is disapproval of a president's personality sufficient reason to transfer power... "

" ...to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party?"

Well, excuse me all to hell and back, but isn't that exactly what the GOP and Fox have been doing all along?

[yonder]

2. I didn't care for the article much.

There were too many cushions and bumpers to ease any blows to trumpism.

"Appalling swamp creatures, perhaps, but the Gambinos?" in reference to the Biden family? Give me a break. The Bidens have spent years sacrificing and working hard in the interest of public service and that is dismissed as "appalling swamp creatures"? BS to the WSJ.

[question everything]

3. I am sure that he was grinding his teeth when he wrote this

this is why I added that they are starting to get used to it.

Adjacent to this one is the one about the myth of Trump's economy, posted above.

[yonder]

4. I just read that one -- like night and day in my biased mind.