The 2016 campaign was exhilarating, watching Trump roll all over those lightweights and defy his naysayers at every turn. That it culminated with reporter Martha Raddatz crying on-air in the wee hours of the morning as Trump denied Hillary Clinton the White House was perhaps the greatest political moment of my life.
Unfortunately for Trump, that would be the highlight of his presidency.
The next four years seemed to be one calamity after the next. Some of it was his own making. Most of it was that he allowed his enemies to clobber him mercilessly. How often I screamed at my TV, "DUDE!!! HIT BACK!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!"
He never would. He was a human punching bag.
2016 was an eternity ago. Today, he's a sad, broken man and the only person he seems capable of attacking is the most successful conservative governor in the country.
“The 2016 campaign was exhilarating, watching Trump roll all over those lightweights and defy his naysayers at every turn. That it culminated with reporter Martha Raddatz crying on-air in the wee hours of the morning as Trump denied Hillary Clinton the White House was perhaps the greatest political moment of my life.”
Because in 2016 we had someone who would finally fight for us. Trump was going to stand up to the deep state on behalf of the American people.
What happened is the deep state emboldened under President Trump. And what has happened is that since 2020, Trump is no longer fighting for us. He is now demanding we fight for him. You see it all over this thread.. “we need to RALLY AROUND President Trump.”
The script has been flipped. He is now a sad, bitter old man who demands that when he says jump, we all collectively say how high. And anyone who doesn’t is subject to his grade-school insults.