Indeed. What he’s doing on the world stage is under-appreciated but I hope the President feels personally refueled by the visit to Asia even if the press won’t change…nor the Nobel Prize committee. Or the United Nations for that matter.
My only worry though is that due to what happened in Butler PA, the President avoids doing rallies (and rightly so) and he is losing touch domestically. He is too far removed the voices and day to day life concerns of the base in Middle America. And this may be what leads to the political undoing of much of what MAGA has built up…
The impending Zohran Mamdani election will be an inflection point of sorts not just for NYC but everywhere.
Just anecdotally, I’m out in Thailand right now and about 2 weeks ago in Bangkok ran into a English guy that was a trucker in the US but retired to Cambodia. He was there for a medical procedure and said the difference for him is that he couldn’t do a land border crossing but had to fly in.
For example...Obama was in Office for 11 days when he was nominated.