Much like seven years ago, Donald Trump is running for president to the dismay of establishment Republicans. They figured him for a loser when he announced in 2015. He wasn’t, but he looks more like one now after his chosen candidates fared poorly in Pennsylvania, Arizona and other swing states in the midterm election.
Even Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post and Wall Street Journal editorial board have turned on Trump. But it would be reckless to count Trump out or underestimate how he and his enraged politics of grievance still menace our democratic form of government.
Trump won in 2016 with a primeval appeal to the fears, resentments and prejudices of enough voters to leave most establishment politicians lying prostrate at his feet for four long years.
