This is what is utterly misunderstood about Trump.
I will never forget, and it was I think January 24 this year, how after Trump tweeted out that he had been wiretapped in Trump tower the story STOPPED. Dead in its tracks. Gone. Vanished. It has since been largely shown to be true. What’s left? Every 45 days or so the story gets resurrected by some leftist who has an article deadline to meet and who has never had an original thought in their entire career and it goes NOWHERE. The Repubs don’t see that. They cannot duplicate the tactic, as if it’s beyond them. It’s not beyond Trump and he consistently demonstrates the efficacy of the tactic.
It is one thing that the Republicans by and large hate Trump. It is shortsighted, deluded and goes to the obsequious nature of this band of useless fools. But for them to ignore the powerful effect of Trump fighting back against the 4th-grade playground dirtbomb attacks is just stupid. The Republican failure to fight back against leftist morons is acquiescence to leftist morons. It’s classic feckless GWBush. It didn’t work then and doesn’t work now and the opposite action works quite consistently.
I so agree with you, ASD.