Back on July 11, I marveled at how Donald Trump seemed to be “the luckiest man to ever attempt to climb the greasy pole of American electoral politics.”
This was after Trump got to face off against an incredibly unpopular Democrat, Hillary Clinton, in 2016; after FBI director Jim Comey suddenly rebooted the Hillary email scandal in the closing days of that campaign; after Alvin Bragg’s indictment in the flimsy Stormy Daniels case managed to mute criticism of Trump, from the right, for other, more serious charges, such as in the January 6 cases and the classified documents case; after the Bragg indictment catalyzed the Republican primary base to rally around him; and after Trump looked likely to face “a politically crippled Joe Biden, who the entire country thinks is too old to do the job” in the middle of a left-wing civil war over Biden’s Israel-Gaza policy.
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