As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.

This week, GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately admitted that Donald Trump’s midterm convention in Texas was a serious problem for the state’s Republican candidates. Asked about this, Trump unleashed a long, tortured monologue, and it was revealing. He kept returning to the number of viewers that he got at the convention, and kept repeating that he won Texas multiple times. He can only see this in terms of how he fared there, with no regard for GOP candidates. We think that Trump’s inability to clearly…

  • NEZ27@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I don’t think they’re saying his narcissism was a road block to power. But the vast majority of his enterprises were straight up failures or crimes. His wealth was inherited and mostly squandered until others let him in on the grift and be the face of wanton abuse.

    Its pretty easy to declare ‘success’ when you lie, cheat, and steal and are never punished for it. ‘Success’ is only accurate if power acquisition is the only metric. And even then, lied and cheated to do it. If someone cheats on a test, we don’t consider them an A student.