President Trump has completed an epic six months, with accomplishments that dwarf those of almost any of his predecessors in the same time period. But liberals aren’t giving up hope: they remain convinced that the roof is going to fall in, at any moment.
Thus, we have these stories back to back in The New York Times:
All three of these hopeful analyses refer to Jeffrey Epstein. The Democrats hope for a deus ex machina in which Epstein’s ghost will somehow relieve them of their Trump nightmare. Which strikes me as delusional. As I keep reminding people, Epstein was a Democrat. His contacts were principally among Democrats, including Democrats in academia. The only politician–I emphasize, the only politician–known to have had a significant relationship with Epstein was Bill Clinton. (Someday, maybe we will learn what the blue dress and high heels were all about.) Donald Trump knew Epstein casually because of the Palm Beach connection, but Trump’s most notable act was kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Maybe he caught on to Epstein’s corruption before any of the Democrats did.
In any event, there is little chance that any new investigation into the dead Epstein’s affairs will have any perceptible impact on Trump’s standing with the public. And the fact that the Democrats couldn’t care less about the fact that such an investigation is more likely to bring Bill Clinton into further disrepute (and possibly Hillary) shows how far that party has come.
Finally, what is the other reason why Times opinion writers think Trump had a “very bad week”? A “stinging SCOTUS dissent.” But wait! If it was a dissent, that means Trump won the case. In fact, he won the Department of Education issue in the Supreme Court on an 8-1 vote, with no other justices joining Ketanji Jackson’s “stinging dissent.”
This is how deep Democrats have to dig in their search for good news.
