Trump Is Winning in the Most Absurd Way Possible

He’s been thriving just by sitting in court while his opponents play fantasy games of defeating him forever.

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Former president Donald Trump pumps a fist outside Trump Tower after the verdict in his criminal trial in New York City, May 30, 2024.

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Since 2015, a great deal of the American chattering class has wished to turn the page on Donald Trump, to get to the final moral of the story. Somewhere in their imagination, they fantasize about a moment in which Trump casts off all disguise and reveals himself definitely as evil incarnate, and at that moment the forces of light, led by someone like Robert Mueller or Merrick Garland, will assemble and cast him and his people into the outer darkness forever and ever. They live to see the walls closing in.

And consequently, their brains have adapted to operate on a deficit of oxygen.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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