A myth says lightning never strikes twice in the same place. President Donald Trump appears to believe it can when it comes to replicating his narrow victory in 2016.
What is not a myth is that you can’t reproduce experiences, such as a sports contest. Even if you could bring back the same fans and put them in the same seats, you could not replicate the emotions or the dramatic action of previous games.
Whether you believe polls or not, Trump seems behind in several categories that matter – suburban white women without a college degree and white men, for example. There also appears to have been a small decline in the most ardent and forgiving part of his base: evangelical Christians. He’s also not doing well in battleground states he won last time.
I know, the polls were wrong in 2016. In that year a lot of people did not take Trump seriously. Some apparently weren’t honest with pollsters. This year Trump’s opponents are taking him seriously, to the point of visceral hatred. It is one reason the major media resemble a propaganda arm of the Establishment, reporting nothing good the administration has done and ascribing the basest of motives to him.
Editions of The Washington Post and The New York Times last Saturday were unified in their criticism of the president’s Mount Rushmore speech. He was accused in “news stories” of delivering a “divisive culture war message” (Times) and “exploit(ing) social divisions” (Post). Notice the culture war and social division are never the fault of the left. Trump is not responsible for rioting, looting and the destruction of monuments. Why aren’t the anarchists guilty of launching a culture war and dividing Americans? Answer: because it is all part of a unified tactic to harm the president’s re-election and restore the Establishment to power.