His pathetic bragging, the naked insecurity, the bizarre appearance, the lurching, comically bombastic movements may make MAGA-ites feel better about themselves.
The Democrats’ adoption of neo-liberal orthodoxy (just retrain when you lose your job—but don’t ask us to tell you how, or help you pay for it) went hand-in-hand with Republican supply-side cant (the government is totalitarian when it helps anyone but the wealthy) to fuel a cataclysmic downgrading of the American self-esteem.