Trump’s Decade of Comebacks Might Be Over

On Oct. 1, 2016, Jesse Farrar, then a freelance scribe for sites like Vice and Deadspin, issued a tweet that would define the next 10 years of American politics. I’ll reproduce it as a poem:

Well, I’d like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Well, I’d like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Three months out from the midterm election, five months into a stalemated (at best) war of choice with the Islamic Republic of Iran, we are back once again in the territory of Farrar’s first verse. Trump’s approval rating has reached a second-term nadir. His attempts to shake free of his unwise Middle Eastern war have been repeatedly frustrated by a counterparty in Tehran that........

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