Trump’s messaging on Iran (and, well, everything), is incoherent. He’s grasping at straws, and drawing us further and further into the war (that we’ve “already won”). With a ground-invasion looming — or at least the threat of it — Trump’s bottom is dropping out.
But will it matter?
No Escape for Trump
There’s a moment in every failed strongman’s story when the noise fades, the flunkies fall silent and slip from the throne room one final time before the shooting starts. There’s a moment where the court jesters stop laughing at the Dear Leader’s every joke, and when reality comes crashing through the gilded walls like a breaching charge. There’s a moment when the loyal bodyguard’s eyes flicker with some new signal, and the dictator wonders if the tools of oppression and brutality will be turned on him.
