Only Trump Could Win By Losing

Michael Kruse: “Donald Trump has always found a way to win even when he’s lost. He insists he’s won when he hasn’t. Losses that loom, he pushes off. He argues any opposition into submission. In business, he made a habit of succeeding without succeeding, and it’s held true, too, in politics. In 2016, of course, he won (the Electoral College) even though he lost (the popular vote). He is, as I once put it, ‘the most successful failer of all time…'”

“It’s too early to declare a winner. But let’s assume Biden holds his leads in Arizona and Nevada. That would get him to 270 electoral votes. Even if on the other side of any recounts, court fights and ongoing ballot tallies that outcome is made official, a one-term Trump seems poised to exit the White House with a new sort of sway.”

“The much-anticipated, practically existential 2020 election, after all, did not produce the repudiation of Trump and his coarse personal style and politics of division that (slightly more than) half the country craved.”