Edward Luce: “This isn’t an obituary of Donald Trump. He nonetheless has a believable shot at turning into the primary ex-president to be re-elected since Grover Cleveland in 1892. However politics is set momentum — and the power at the back of Trump is dissipating. The unhealthy information for Trump’s detractors is that his ‘MAGA’ base isn’t fading. The Kraken lives on. It simply now not displays such deference to the person in Mar-a-Lago.”
“Trump’s handicap is that he’s obsessive about one factor — that he was once cheated by way of Joe Biden of his rightful election victory in 2020. Maximum Republican citizens percentage in that trust, which is a litmus check for applicants. But the stolen election delusion is their politics’ start line, now not its be-all and end-all. Through confining himself to rigged elections, Trump is forgetting Maga’s animating spirit, which is hatred of The united states’s cultural elites.”
“When Trump’s monomania backfires, it leaves him taking a look vulnerable.”
