TRUMP: EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION

After almost six years of campaigning and presidency, suddenly Donald Trump is being denounced by both the political and media mainstreams as an aberration within America’s political process. This tsunami of opinion was triggered not by his refusal to promise, in his debates against first Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden, to accept the election results, but by his last-ditch rallying cry to his hard-core supporters as they rioted in support of a chaotic coup. Paradoxically this now pressures those Republicans, whose allegiance to Trump as loser had wavered, to repudiate their support of someone they perceive as likely to drag their party down with him for at least an election cycle to come. The balance between being a MAGAtt or running the gauntlet of Tea Partiers calling you a RINO is a difficult one for right-wingers to maintain. But the coup has also provided an escape-hatch for what America calls “centrist” media pundits to distance themselves from their previous enabling of Trump, whose antics they treated as legitimate politics as usual. even as his actions flouted democratic legitimacy, by wrapping themselves in the ‘sanctity’ of American democracy.

Despite its centrist convenience, positioning Trump as a political outlier ignores reality. After his loss to Joe Biden, his presidency seems to be crashing on a late questioning of his ‘character’, but character is a bullfighter’s…