Pity the Fool

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."  'Don the Con' [I think he'd like that one, if it weren't about him] is coming a cropper against that hard truth.

Everything to date has been "spinnable": Russian meddling in the 2016 election, "very fine people; on both sides" at Charlottesville; "I'm not a racist, I have black friends", the economy is all his doing [it's not], holding up aid to Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden, deals with China on IP theft [there isn't one], with the DPRK on nukes [nothing there either], peace in the middle east; there's always a spin he (or Kayleigh MacNinny) can pull out of his kiester.

But as the polls seem to suggest, covid-19 is different. There's no spinning rising infection rates, over-run hospitals and a mounting death toll. The pandemic has exploded the myth of "the competent business manager" who can fix Washington. The curtain has been drawn back to reveal a cheap huckster in an expensive suit.  His ability to fool everyone all of the time has run its course and reality has, finally, caught up with him.