There is a witticism attributed to Napoleon: “Do not interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake.” This morning President Trump succeeded in executing an own goal by tweeting that the four freshmen Democratic women should go back to their own countries, impelling other Democrats, who’d been busily tearing themselves apart, into defending them.
I have said multiple times that I have little or no insight into President Trump’s thinking. Maybe he has some deep strategy but I doubt it. He shoulda left well enough alone.
The cynic in me, the one that watches power politics for the tea leaves, says that by consciously making these four into the public face of the Democrat party, he thinks he gains more in the long term than he loses in the short term.
He may be right.
You may be correct, Dave. And as always Trump was ham fisted. But Piercello beat me to it. Make those four zeros the face of the Democrat party. They are bat shit crazy and won’t play well beyond their safe districts.