"...When Trump’s supporters talk about the 91 felony charges he’s facing from four indictments in four jurisdictions as if they’re just water bouncing off a duck’s back, it’s hollow boosterism. They want to portray Trump as a strongman whose might makes him immune to morality, laws, and the Constitution.
"What they refuse to see is a man diminished. Trump is being stalked by something he has dodged for decades — accountability. Now he has to deal with Tuesday’s surprising news that the political network founded by Charles and David Koch, the ultra right-wing and diabolically powerful billionaires, has endorsed Nikki Haley for the Republican presidential nomination. It’s a clear attempt to prod the party beyond Trump who, at least to the Kochs, has outlived his usefulness.
"With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, it’s another unexpected jolt for the former president whose cult of personality might not be as durable as it once was. Despite his public bravado, he’s old, miserable, and desperate. But as the world witnessed at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a desperate Trump is also a man unbound and at his most dangerous." -- Renee Graham, Boston Globe, concluding her op/ ed, "Donald Trump's Un-wonderful Life." We agree. His increasingly unhinged rhetoric and behavior underscore his fear and desperation. Nobody should be fooled that he's handling any of his legal and political challenges well. That's good.
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