Guest Column: Trump has become Roy Cohn with a presidential seal
Have American voters reset the political clock to the day before Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015?
It certainly looks that way.
The midterm blue tsunami delivered one of the most humiliating repudiations of a president and his political party since Watergate voters sent a message: Enough is enough.
But will Trump get the message? Don’t bet your mortgage on it.
Days after Republicans were electorally pulverized, Trump replaced White House chief of Staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller, the hard-line architect of his administration’s controversial immigration and deportation policies.
If voters wanted less confrontation, Trump responded by hiring a man who seemingly considers confrontation a recreational sport.
The election was about the economy, tariffs, wars, skyrocketing gas prices, immigration crackdowns, corruption and the perception Trump, his family and cronies consider themselves above the laws and norms governing everyone else.
But something else was at work. Trump fatigue.
Americans were simply sick of Trump. Sick of his voice, his........
