(07-29-2020, 12:32 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(07-29-2020, 12:09 PM)mikesez Wrote: Yes.  But.
Trump could have hit a reset button, and started acting like a winner, three different times.
The press was ready to give him a mulligan on election night.  They actually praised his speech that night.
Then they were ready to be nice after the inauguration.  Give him and his staff a chance to act like they won. But they act like aggrieved losers again, right out of the box.
Third, the crisis we are in now, they were definitely ready to say "Trump is finally acting presidential," but, first he called it a hoax, then he insisted on going against his own scientists to praise a drug that, at first was untested, but, by now, has repeatedly failed randomized trials.

Trump couldn't have beaten 17 established politicians hitting the reset button. He had to utilize the personality that got him where he was. 

LOL at the press ready to give him a mulligan on election night. You live in an alternate reality.

Here's what the LA times ran on election night:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-p...story.html
It's a positive article.
I could give many more examples.

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I remember how I felt too.
I wasn't apprehensive at all. Y'all say I have TDS now, but I didn't. I didn't want him to be the nominee. I wanted Kasich or Rubio. But after his election night speech, I thought he might be turning over a new leaf. I slept soundly that night.
I figured that, either the campaign drama was all for show and he was ready to govern like an adult, or, if he wasn't, Republicans in Congress would check him. Either way we'd be fine.
I'm truly shocked, still, that he didn't start behaving like an adult, and the Republicans in the Senate ended up doing zilch about it.

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