We watch in collective astonishment as an incompetent would-be dictator embarrasses us with his fixation on gold plated toilet bowls and bloated ballrooms and cruelly withholding SNAP funds and raising taxes (he calls it “tariffs” and thinks that means nobody will notice it’s actually a punishing tax on the American people).
The net effect this coming Tuesday will be that the farmers and struggling working class people who voted him in will stay home in disappointment and disgust. Meanwhile millions of other Americans will race to the polls to vote for Mamdani or Platner, or anyone else willing to point out that the Emperor has no clothes.
The self proclaimed leader of the political right may turn out to be the best friend the political left ever had.
Isn’t it ironic?