Trump has done more than merely "persuade enough electors to vote for him".
He has headed off all challengers, and he has captured the Republican party, and he has successfully delayed criminal proceedings and also discredited (in his followers's eyes) various court findings against him.
He has survived and prospered after January 6, which should have ended his political career.
None of these crucial facts follow from your dismissal of him as "deranged".
And indeed, part of his success is because opponents underestimate him and dismiss him as "deranged".
I said something similar (but less well-informed) to my kids this morning over breakfast. They're teenagers and horrified by some of the stuff around gender, for example. My points to them were a) much of this still has to be processed by government bureaucracy and may be challenged in the courts and b) more importantly, what are they doing and *not* shouting about while we are all distracted by the current noise
Is he deranged? He sounds deranged - but that is quite a different thing. He always seems to come out on top.
Trump has done more than merely "persuade enough electors to vote for him".
He has headed off all challengers, and he has captured the Republican party, and he has successfully delayed criminal proceedings and also discredited (in his followers's eyes) various court findings against him.
He has survived and prospered after January 6, which should have ended his political career.
None of these crucial facts follow from your dismissal of him as "deranged".
And indeed, part of his success is because opponents underestimate him and dismiss him as "deranged".
But that does not fit the evidence.
I said something similar (but less well-informed) to my kids this morning over breakfast. They're teenagers and horrified by some of the stuff around gender, for example. My points to them were a) much of this still has to be processed by government bureaucracy and may be challenged in the courts and b) more importantly, what are they doing and *not* shouting about while we are all distracted by the current noise