{"id":158,"date":"2026-03-23T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:16:03","slug":"making-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/making-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Slate today, Ian Prasad Philbrick surveys the field of pundits and prognosticators and wonders<\/a>: “Where does the chronic impulse to forecast Trump\u2019s imminent downfall come from?\u201d Well, it\u2019s not like there aren\u2019t a million reasons he *should* fall. As Philbirck notes, critics have predicted the end again and again:<\/p>\n

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It happened after the release of the Access Hollywood tape, when dozens of Republican elected officials rescinded their support over Trump\u2019s comments bragging about grabbing women\u2019s genitals. The end was again nigh in May 2017, when former CBS anchor Dan Rather declared that \u201cthe curtain may be coming down on this act of this tragedy\u201d after Robert Mueller started investigating Trump\u2019s ties to Russia. After Trump equivocated over a deadly white-supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, the journalist Matt Taibbi called it \u201cthe final stake through the Grinch-heart of his presidency.\u201d An FBI raid on the office of longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen the following year emboldened then-New Yorker writer Adam Davidson to argue that \u201cwe are now in the end stages of the Trump presidency.\u201c This fellow finally, totally discredited himself,\u201d an \u201cexhilarated\u201d Sen. Mitch McConnell told a New York Times reporter hours after a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. \u201cDonald Trump is now forever disgraced,\u201d the historian Brenda Wineapple opined in the Times after the House committee investigating Jan. 6 referred him for criminal prosecution. Weeks before Trump won the 2024 election, the Republican pollster Frank Luntz predicted that his debate performance against Kamala Harris would cost the former president the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is what makes those of us who still believe in the U.S. Constitution \u2014 in justice, in principles in fairness, and in morality \u2014 so insane. No one should still have popular support after *any* of these episodes, let alone all of them. The world is upside down when a \u201cleader\u201d can do all of this and still get more votes than his opponent and maintain the support of his party and all of the sycophants around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The world is truly upside down when this person can go to war against another country for no reason he or anyone else can identify, spending over a billion dollars per day of our money, killing our fellow Americans, and even aiding this so-called \u201cenemy” by lifting sanctions<\/a> to allow them to profit from their oil to the tune of $14 billion (which they will certainly spend to attempt to kill more Americans or damage American interests), and still\u2026 still, this person maintains his position, the support of his party, and the support of most of the people who voted for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seriously people, what will it take for this demagogue<\/a> to be dethroned?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Slate today, Ian Prasad Philbrick surveys the field of pundits and prognosticators and wonders: “Where does the chronic impulse to forecast Trump\u2019s imminent downfall come from?\u201d Well, it\u2019s not like there aren\u2019t a million reasons he *should* fall. As Philbirck notes, critics have predicted the end again and again: It happened after the release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-coup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}