John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
Gibberish is boring.
Don’t give him too much credit.
But first came the end of the crazy-making.
She learned from Biden’s fatal error.
He can’t change a lifetime of habits.
His greatest asset has been his greatest liability.
Trump’s smear job against Joe Biden climaxed prematurely, and now that the vice president has taken over, he doesn’t know what to do.
As a consequence, the public can’t see his impotence.
So he’s preventing wider discussion of the effect of rightwing political violence on democratic politics, though doing so endangers his life.
If the vice president can maintain her current momentum, Trump is going to look, by contrast, older, weirder and more emasculated.