[quote]Standing in the bowels of Madison Square Garden on the evening of Sunday, October 27, an irate group of Trump staffers, family members, and loyalists was looking for someone to blame.
[quote]The prime-time show playing out just beyond their corridor had been eight years in the making. Trump, hailed as “the man who built New York’s skyline” by a roster of celebrity speakers, would stage an elaborate homecoming to celebrate his conquest of the American political psyche. It seemed that nothing—not even the $1 million price tag for producing such an event—could put a damper on the occasion.
[quote]And then, before some in the audience had even found their seats, the party was over.
[quote]The first presenter, a shock comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe, told a sequence of jokes that earned little laughter but managed to antagonize constituencies Trump had spent months courting. One was about Black people carving watermelons for Halloween; another portrayed Jews as money-hungry and Arabs as primitive. The worst line turned out to be the most destructive. “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,” Hinchcliffe said. “I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
[quote]The blowback was instantaneous.
As someone who has been suffering the highs and lows on this election season, particularly the last month, this is perhaps the best news of the entire cycle. The Trump campaign has imploded. They know they're losing, and the blaming, name-calling and career-salvage operations have begun.
Seriously, go read the article in [italic]The Atlantic.[/italic] It's worth the subscription price if you're not already there. It chronicles the demise of the Trump campaign from looking like it was going to be a Reagan-esque landslide victory a scant 100 days ago, to a totally mismanaged, out-of-control shit show in which now they're fighting to keep it even close in hopes of having futures in the political arena.
And it shows: Trump is troweling on the makeup to cover what his actual skin looks like after the stress of running a campaign as a 78-year-old adderall addict, grasping at "garbage" straws, simulating blow jobs from the campaign event stage, and behaving so erratically that even diehard MAGAts are turning away in shame. JD Vance has disappeared. And the people who have worked for nearly 2 years to bring Trump back to the White House are now so confident of his loss that they're willing to spill their guts to Tim Alberta in an effort to salvage their reputations, even knowing that Trump's retribution will be legion when he loses.
So, so sweet.