The strange liberal nonchalance about Trump’s return
Having supposedly worried too much about him last time, people are overcorrecting
https://www.ft.com/content/e11b77b4-eb8a-438c-ba74-39715781bf35
Janan Ganesh:
There is a hubris in Maga-world right now that just wasn’t there in 2017, in part because Trump hadn’t won the popular vote. Talk of much higher economic growth, territorial conquest, putting a US flag on Mars: if this doesn’t reek to you of pride before a fall, of imminent over-reach, then we just have different antennas. (And I hope mine is wrong.) In all democracies, a party is never more dangerous than when high on fresh electoral success. The difference with the US is the size of the stakes for the outside world. Think of George W Bush after his historically good midterms in 2002, or Lyndon Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam after 1964, when his vote pile could be seen from space.
Having supposedly worried too much about him last time, people are overcorrecting
https://www.ft.com/content/e11b77b4-eb8a-438c-ba74-39715781bf35
Janan Ganesh:
There is a hubris in Maga-world right now that just wasn’t there in 2017, in part because Trump hadn’t won the popular vote. Talk of much higher economic growth, territorial conquest, putting a US flag on Mars: if this doesn’t reek to you of pride before a fall, of imminent over-reach, then we just have different antennas. (And I hope mine is wrong.) In all democracies, a party is never more dangerous than when high on fresh electoral success. The difference with the US is the size of the stakes for the outside world. Think of George W Bush after his historically good midterms in 2002, or Lyndon Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam after 1964, when his vote pile could be seen from space.