The media is not allowed, or is not allowing itself, to recognize the fact that Trump is rapidly sliding into a fairly advanced state of dementia. One thing that appears to be happening as a result of that dementia may very well make a Democratic surge in November even more likely.
All his life Trump has been a liar, and he has been able to lie in such a way as to convince a fair proportion of his listeners that he is telling the truth. It takes a bit of brains to lie that way. For instance, you have to craft the lie so that it appeals to the target audience, and once you have lied, you have to more or less stick to it, though if you’re good at it, you can modify it as the times might require so that after a while you have turned the lie 180 degrees and the suckers still believe it. Trump is a past master at lying like that.
But the dementia is taking a toll. Trump’s Art of the Lie is slipping away. He is now often telling the truth, and it can’t help but hurt his own poll numbers and by extension the prospects for the Republicans that have been kissing his ass for the past nine years. For instance, a day or so ago Trump allowed that he didn’t much care about the negotiations to end the war in Iran, because “Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring”. He also told the truth when he said he didn’t care “Not even a little bit” about the way the war was affecting American’s finances. As I pointed out in a previous post, his recent actions will only turn off some voters; they willl attract none. The same goes every time he tells the truth. No one is likely come over to his side after hearing that he doesn’t care a whit about them.
I predict that we’ll be hearing more truth come out of Trump’s mouth as the dementia gets worse, and as a result more voters will abandon both him and his party. Don’t get me wrong, he’ll still lie on occasion, but the lies will be more transparent and his slips into telling the truth will increase, and the last thing the Republicans could want is for Trump to tell the truth. They’ll be stuck defending that truth. That will be hard, for they will have to argue, in essence, that he didn’t mean what he said, but they absolutely agree with what he meant.