Donald Trump learned a lot from his attorney Roy Cohn. For those of you unaware, Roy Cohn had also been legal counsel for Senator Joe McCarthy during the red baiting of the 50s. One of the things he learned was that when you are attacked, you attack back and harder. We can see that happening every day.
But, here is a lesson that Trump didn't learn from Cohn, and he should have. When McCarthy was censured (or "condemned") by the senate and basically went away in disgrace, his popularity rating was still around 40%. That seems to represent the base of Americans supportive of McCarthy, and also of Trump. But, in the end, what Cohn said did McCarthy in was that people got tired of it.
People got tired of the show. They got tired of the chaos. They got tired of the lies and continually changing story. They got tired of seeing people bullied and abused. The show got old and so it got cancelled.
I am hearing from more and more people, including Republicans who were not never-Trumpers, that they are tired of the show. It's a rule that ever the showman Trump might have learned, should have learned, but never did.
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