Coronavirus won’t be enough to kill Trump’s 2020 campaign

Published April 27, 2020 7:47pm ET



New York Times columnist Charles Blow, if ignorant and simple, is at least honest. In his latest piece Sunday, Blow admits that the current health scare doesn’t spell certain death for Trump’s reelection campaign — not because we’ve apparently managed to beat virtually every dire projection of the disease’s progression, but because:

He is completely unencumbered by the truth, the need to tell it or accept it. He will do and say anything that he believes will help him. He has no greater guiding principles. He is not bound by ethics or morals. His only alliances are to those who would support and further his devotion to self-promotion.

It reads like a frustrated tantrum because that’s all it is. If a president wanted to accomplish Trump’s stated goals of office, from a policy perspective, what would a campaign look like that the national media would find acceptable? Such a thing doesn’t exist and never could, and that’s mostly because Trump committed the unpardonable sin of winning his election.

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