There have been many promising portents of Donald Trump’s political demise over the last couple of weeks.
For starters, virtually all of his election-denying acolytes — Doug Mastriano, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, Adam Laxalt — crashed and burned in the midterm election. Then there was Trump’s latest presidential campaign pronouncement, which was greeted with big yawns by even friendly outlets like Fox News (which broke away from his nearly two-hour Mar-a-Lago speech after about half an hour) and the New York Post (which covered the event with a hilariously dismissive, bottom-of-the-front-page headline: “Florida Man Makes Announcement”). Even Trump’s diehard base seem to be finally cooling to his strongman charisma; according to recent polls, Republican voters are instead now making googly eyes at Florida Gov.