options: – Trump’s master plan cracks

This week it stood Donald Trump rose from the near-dead, as a corona patient admitted to the hospital. But as a sudden resurrection, he committed suicide largely politically. It is suicide on steroids, one of the controversial drugs Trump received from doctors at Walter Reed Hospital outside of Washington DC. They are drugs that doctors and many observers believe have turned the initially eccentric narcissist Trump into a complete helix. Everything takes place, of course, in broad daylight, with the cameras on. As a suicide reality show, it is a fantastic dramaturgy. It’s actually scary at best.

But the resurrection for the most part it was not perceived as messianic. Because he was more manic. And polls give the president a beating for the resurrection. But most of all, the polls beat up the president for the way he got sick. Because the White House was indeed a super director when Trump came on September 26 to celebrate that he had nominated Amy Coney Barrett as a new justice on the Supreme Court. The party was held in Rosehagen at the White House, and more than 30 people identify as infected after this party. And the resurrection after slendria and indifference so far does not have the same status as the biblical resurrection.

So lead now Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is up to 16 percentage points ahead of Trump in a national poll conducted by CNN, while on average he leads by 10 percentage points. The CNN poll is the biggest advantage someone has had this close to an election in modern times. And even in the tip status that Biden is likely to get the most, Pennsylvania leads by 7 percentage points.

That’s why triumphs master plan to argue for victory in a fading even election. Because although the plan could never be proclaimed, it was poorly camouflaged. The starting point is that long before the election campaign began, Trump questioned the legitimacy of the election. He did it in various ways.

One was for never confirm that he would resign if he lost. When faced with the question directly, he would usually reply, “Well, we’ll have to wait and see what happens.” The other way was to question the legitimacy of postal votes, because according to him, and especially only him, they are very easy to falsify. And the third way to question the legitimacy of the elections was over and over again to say that the only way to lose the elections was if the elections were faked. In this way, Trump has created the wonderful myth among his followers that only he can win a free and fair election.

The last piece Trump’s plan is to urgently appoint his Supreme Court candidate, Amy Coney Barrett, so that the court will obtain a conservative majority of six to three. Then, the Supreme Court may give Trump victory if questions can be raised about the validity of the votes in one or more auspicious states. It happened in Florida in 2000, when a conservative majority on the Supreme Court finally gave George W. Bush victory over Democrat Al Gore.

The problem for Trump is that such a plan presupposes an outcome that he may doubt. And if the polls as they are today were the result of November 3, you cannot doubt the result. Then you have lost. Point.

In that case, you can thank his arrogance, his own overconfidence, at the time of the crown. One expression of this is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has not been in the White House for more than two months because he does not trust Trump and his administration to follow the scrutiny rules well enough. of infections. The White House is now described as a haunted house, after being a super spreader at the September 26 party. The White House that Trump triumphantly arrived at Tuesday, when he theatrically threw the mask in what is described as “a Mussolini moment,” and spoke to some supporters, is a deserted piece of road. By employees who eventually get serious about infection control and are sick or isolated.

Trump did not yet when he got home from the hospital. Instead, he made a shocking statement on Twitter that the infection was a blessing from God. He also surprised his staff by stopping negotiations with Democrats in Congress on a new stimulus package for a crown-prone economy, another politically suicidal moment. Do we see a president on steroids? Or do we see a president who realizes that the re-election master plan is about to fail?