Commentary
All American political factions except the unambiguous supporters of former President Donald Trump are now whistling past the graveyard. But the Democratic and Republican versions of the “Trump is a Monster” school of current American political science are staking out the lines of where they choose to make their last stands.
The Sunday, May 22, main headline of the New York Times was “Trump’s ’20 Election Lies Take Root in Statehouses,” and Peggy Noonan a few days before in the Wall Street Journal advised one more time that Trump’s base is eroding and that he’s now trying to guess where it’s going without him, so he can catch up to it. She effectively imputes to Trump the same leadership deficiencies as the mid-19th century French opposition figure Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, who famously is alleged to have said, “There go the people and I must follow them, for I am their leader.”…