We are now only 6 months into Trump's presidency and, go figure, things are even crazier.
Looking positively to the future, though, how are we going to explain him when he's gone when even now so much of this makes absolutely no sense?
Politics and policy - at least in the general sense - aside, his reactions reveal the perfect storm; an obviously deeply troubled person, a bumbler, but somehow skating on the brink works for him.
This week's "what now?" moment has been the "Epstein matter". The beat-back he's getting is a problem of his own creation. Karma. But some of the things that he does leads us back to the whole question of how does he get away with what for others would be disastrous?
It's really just minutia, but his response to the "bawdy" tape "Wall Street Journal" story is a great example. We have gone from the "I could shoot someone on 5th avenue" claim, to the Access Hollywood "grab them by the pussy" tape, a disastrous first term, all culminating in an attack on the Capitol during his first term and now, Trump 2.0.
We know that Trump never ducks or covers but how would you catalog some crude drawing and cryptic message about a "secret" among this list of dirty doings? This guy is a convicted felon, been accused of rape and has been fined civilly for sexual misconduct. Who cares if he sent another perv a birthday message with some sort of crude drawing?
The question for me, the thing that brings me back to being puzzled, is why not just say "so what?" and move on? Instead, he engages in denials and things that can easily be proven to be patently false.
Why does he get yet another pass? The only explanation I can come up with is that deep down inside contrarians fascinate. Like the frontier American Indian shaman who rides his horse backwards and acts in all manner of unexpected ways, he is mesmerizing. To some he just seems like a crazy man but to the others in the tribe he's magic.
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