A Note About What Is To Come

 A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that every time a mainstream news outlet did a story about Joe Biden's strong lead in the polls, the writers had to add the obligatory observation that "there is still plenty of time for Trump to turn things around."


What none of them seemed to even be able to imagine is that there was an equal amount of time left for Trump to make things even worse.  And really, which one of those is more likely, given his record so far?


Now we have seen the next move in Trump's charge over the cliff- the totally unforced Postal Service debacle- something which he thought he could easily get away with, but which has backfired on him as badly as anything in his Presidency.


We still have about 80 days left, and Trump's polling doesn't seem to be improving to any significant degree.  You know that this means that he will be boiling toward panic more and more as the days go by.  I think that there is a strong chance that we will see more self-inflicted wounds before November, and these currently unpredictable disasters (who could have imagined the Postal Service doing so much damage to him?) may well turn out to be the most important events that we will see before election day.

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